THE  LIBRARY 

OF 

THE  UNIVERSITY 
OF  CALIFORNIA 


PRESENTED  BY 

PROF.  CHARLES  A.  KOFOID  AND 
MRS.  PRUDENCE  W.  KOFOID 


ROBT.  J.   EVANS 


HISTORY  OF  THE  DUROC 


A  SHORT  HISTORY  OF 
THE  DUROG  JERSEY 
BREED  OF  SWINE 


BY 


ROBT.  J.  EVANS 

Founder    of   the    Duroc    Bulletin,    Former    Secretary 

of    the    National    Duroc    Jersey    Record 

Association;  Present  Secretary  of  the 

American  Swine  Breeders' 

Association 


Published  by 

JAMES  J.  DOTY  PUBLISHING  CO. 
(Duroc  Bulletin)   (Swine  World) 


Copyright  1918,  by 
JAMES  J.  DOTY  PUBLISHING  CO. 


INTRODUCTION 

The  most  frequent  inquiry  that  has 
come  to  my  desk  each  week  for  the  last 
several  years  is,  "Where  can  I  find  a  book 
that  contains  a  history  of  Durocs?"  In 
order  to  answer  many  of  the  questions  that 
arise  in  the  mind  of  the  student  of  pedi- 
gree, and  in  the  mind  of  the  man  who  has 
embarked  into  Duroc  breeding  with  the 
intention  of  mating  to  produce  improve- 
ment, I  have  written  this  little  book.  No 
man  can  be  a  breeder  of  hogs  and  make 
headway  with  his  work,  and  make  im- 
provement in  the  quality  and  character- 
istics of  his  herd  animals  unless  he  knows 
something  of  the  commingling  of  blood 
that  produced  his  herd  headers.  Only  a 
few  of  the  questions  that  have  come  to  me 
in  the  recent  years  about  the  breed  are  an- 
swered in  this  book.  Much  of  the  early 
history  of  the  breed  and  the  early  herds 
has  been  lost  for  the  want  of  a  man  who 
could  devote  his  time  to  gathering  up  the 
widely  scattered  bits  of  information. 


I  have  tried  to  make  the  story  readable, 
and  in  as  few  words  as  possible  give  as 
much  information  as  could  be  boiled  down 
in  so  small  a  volume.  It  is  by  no  means 
a  complete  history  of  the  breed.  The 
writer  hopes  to  be  able  to  take  this  larger 
work  up  shortly  and  with  the  assistance 
of  the  leading  men  who  have  been  active 
in  the  business  in  times  past  and  with 
those  who  are  leaders  now,  bring  out  a 
book  that  will  give  all  of  the  history  of  the 
breed,  that  can  be  learned  by  a  search  of 
the  records,  and  in  conference  with  those 
who  have  through  the  trying  years  of  the 
breeds'  existence,  been  working  for  breed 
improvement. 

This  book  is  dedicated  to  the  interests 
of  the  Duroc,  a  breed  of  hogs  that  has 
come  to  the  front  as  no  other  breed  has 
done  in  the  history  of  livestock  production. 
The  Duroc  has  brought  fecundity,  stamina 
and  size  into  the  pork  herds  of  the  day  and 
a  visit  to  the  market  centers  will  prove  to 
the  most  skeptical  that  he  is  the  "Farmers 
and  Feeders  Favorite."  The  prices  of 


Duroc  breeding  stock  at  this  writing  in  all 
sections  where  purebred  hogs  are  raised  is 
evidence  of  the  popularity  of  the  Duroc, 
and  the  reason  for  that  popularity  is  his 
ability  to  make  good  as  a  producer  of  pork 
under  all  conditions  and  environments. 

For  more  than  25  years  the  writer  has 
worked  to  scatter  the  gospel  of  "More  and 
Better  Durocs,"  and  it  is  with  no  little 
pleasure  that  he  sees  the  ever-widening  in- 
terest taken  in  his  favorite  breed.  And 
this  work  is  put  out  with  the  intention  and 
sincere  desire  to  help  in  still  extending  the 
fields  of  the  Duroc. 

ROBT.  J.  EVANS. 


HISTORY 

-of 
the 

DUROC 


IT  IS  conceded  by  the  best  posted  men  in 
the  Duroc  business,  both  old  and  new, 
that  there  is  little  that  can  be  relied  upon 
in  the  early  history  of  the  Duroc  as  really 
authentic.  This  one  fact,  however,  is  pretty 
conclusively  revealed  by  the  examination  of 
everything  that  can  be  had  on  the  subject, 
that  the  Duroc- Jersey  comes  from  what  was 
best  in  two  or  more  strains  of  red  hogs. 
Among  these  were  the  massive,  coarse  Jer- 
sey Reds  of  New  Jersey,  which  are  descend- 
ants of  a  pair  of  pigs  imported  from  Eng- 
land in  1832;  the  more  compact  Duroc  of 
New  York,  so  named  by  Isaac  Frink  of  that 
state,  after  a  noted  stallion  which  he  owned ; 
and  from  the  Kentucky  strain  which  f ounda- 


HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

tion  was  imported  by  the  Honorable  J.  C. 
Clay  who  was  Minister  to  Portugal  under 
President  Taylor  in  1850. 

Very  naturally,  it  was  some  years  before 
there  was  any  attempt  to  establish  a  type 
of  any  kind.  The  Jersey-Reds  grew  to  ex- 
tremely large  size  when  matured,  some  of 
the  records  being  as  high  as  1,053  pounds 
as  barrows,  and  one  record  is  found  of  30 
head  22  months  old  that  averaged  dressed 
at  685  pounds.  The  Duroc  branch  of  the 
family  carried  more  finish,  was  more  neat 
in  appearance,  both  in  head  and  body.  From 
all  that  can  be  learned  of  the  nature  of  the 
J.  C.  Clay  branch,  it  was  a  medium  type  of 
red  hog,  and  must  have  originally  come  from 
the  wild  red  hog  of  Northern  Africa.  Red 
hogs  were  found  in  an  early  day  in  every 
state  on  the  Atlantic  coast  wjiere  slave  trad- 
ing was  carried  on  and  it  is  fair  to  assume 
that  the  original  of  these  came  from  North 
Africa. 

The  Jersey-Reds  were  named  by  the  Hon- 
orable Joseph  Lyman  in  1857,  who  was  at 


HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

that  time  Agricultural  Editor  of  the  New 
York  Tribune  and  the  words  "Duroc"  and 
Jersey-Reds  were  used  separately  for  a 
number  of  years.  The  union  of  these 
names  under  the  Duroc-Jerseys  and  the 
merging  into  the  one  breed  was  made 
about  the  time  the  first  steps  were  taken 
to  organize  a  recording  association  which 
was  about  1880. 

In  Saratoga  county,  New  York,  and  in 
Connecticut,  and  in  Vermont,  the  same 
type  of  red  hogs  was  bred  and  not  until 
1877  were  there  any  united  efforts  to  agree 
upon  a  standard  of  characteristics  and 
qualifications.  This  was  brought  about  by 
the  breeders  of  Saratoga  county.  A  table 
of  characteristics  was  completed  by  this 
county  association,  and  was  the  work 
largely  of  W.  M.  Holmes,  who  later  moved 
to  Iowa  and  continued  the  improvement 
of  the  Duroc-Jerseys  in  his  adopted  state. 
This  firm  was  later  known  as  C.  H.  Holmes 
&  Co.,  Chas.  Holmes  of  the  firm  being  the 
first  secretary  of  the  American  Associa- 
tion, selected  in  1883.  However,  a  Wis- 
consin organization  had  been  formed  pri- 
marily with  the  purpose  of  a  record,  but 
had  never  taken  any  definite  steps  towards 
that  end  and  was  not  doing  any  recording. 


HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

This  organization  was  formed  in  1882  with 
Geo.  A.  Lytle  of  Elkhorn,  as  president, 
and  W.  H.  Morris  from  the  same  place  as 
secretary. 

It  was  not  until  1881-2  and  -3  that  there 
was  any  particular  -attention  paid  by  the 
breeders  of  Duroc-Jerseys  to  attend  the  big- 
shows  of  the  country  as  evidenced  by  the 
record  in  the  first  volume  in  the  extended 
pedigrees  given  in  the  last  part  of  the  vol- 
ume. These  give  the  show  record  of  these 
various  animals  and  do  not  date  back 
earlier  than  1881,  most  of  them  being  in 
1882  and  1883.  The  first  animal  recorded 
was  Red  Jacket  No.  1,  owned  by  Thos. 
Bennett  of  Illinois. 

This  animal  was  a  combination  of  the 
breeding  of  Clark  Pettit,  New  York,  Sam- 
uel Stark  of  South  Bend,  C.  Burgen,  Rich- 
mond, Ky.,  and  D.  W.  Zink  of  Illinois.  It 
was  evident  that  the  breeders  were  look- 
ing everywhere  and  were  buying  from 
different  localities  to  secure  the  right  cross 
and  improve  these  hogs.  We  need  but  cite 
the  pedigree  of  one  of  the  show  hogs  of 
1884  and  5,  Climax  21.  He  was  shown  by 
Railsback  &  Pittsford  of  Illinois  through- 
out the  West  and  South.  Climax  was  first 
at  Des  Moines  in  1884,  Omaha  1884,  Ot- 

10 


Great  Orion  128377 


Grand  Champion  Duroc  Jersey  Boar  at  the  Nebraska  State  Fair 
and  the  National  Swine  Show,  1918 


rOrion  Cherry 
King  42475 


Great  Orion 
128377 


Pal's  High 

Backed  J 

^     Lady  182760  ] 

I 


Throughout  this  book  you  will  find  a  few  photos  of  Grand 
Champions  and  their  extended  pedigrees. 


Cherrv  King 
25979 

rCherry  Chief 
21335 
<  Stylish  Per- 
fection 3rd 
59436 

Orion  Lady  A. 
-     39756 

rOrion  Chief 
J       13333 
1  Kinp  Lady 
v.      30758 

Pal's   Col. 
29167 

/"Premier  Col. 
J      24965 
]  Pal's  Belle 
52960 

Fancy  Flo 
3rd   94714 

fFancy  Col. 
J       27427 
|  Flo  Orion 
v.     60516 

HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

tumwa  1884,  Oskaloosa  the  same  year,  and 
second  and  Sweepstakes  at  Kansas  City, 
second  at  Sedalia  the  same  year,  and  first 
at  New  Orleans  in  1885.  This  boar  was 
sired  by  John  Jordan  297,  the  latter  being 
bred  by  Mr.  Bradbury  of  Nasons,  Va.,  the 
dam,  Tillie  (no  number),  bred  by  Clark 
Pettit.  In  the  first  volume  of  the  Amer- 
ican record  will  be  found  the  pedigree  of 
animals  that  were  winners  in  the  big  fairs 
from  New  York  to  New  Jersey,  Virginia 
and  as  far  west  as  Omaha,  Neb.  The  rapid 
diffusion  of  this  blood  of  the  Duroc-Jersey 
throughout  the  hog  belt  is  evidence  that 
there  was  need  for  a  better  pork-growing 
machine  than  found  at  that  time.  There  is 
no  comparison  of  the  Duroc-Jersey  of  that 
day  with  the  improved  Duroc  of  today. 
Yet  he  had  within  his  makeup  the  char- 
acteristics that  were  bound  later  to  make 
him  a  leader  in  swine  production.  There 
were  strength  of  character,  ruggedness, 
prolificacy  and  the  ability  to  put  on  pounds 
of  pork  on  forage  and  concentrated  feeds. 
The  Duroc  has  been  developed  through 
more  than  three  quarters  of  a  century  of 
careful  consideration  for  these  qualifica- 
tions, necessary  to  make  the  best  machine 
to  convert  grain  and  grass  into  pounds  of 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

pork  on  foot.  For  the  most  part  he  has 
been  developed  by  men  who  had  to  make 
their  living  from  pork  growing.  The  idea 
in  mind  all  the  way  up  the  line  has  been 
the  best  possible  money-making  hog. 

The  development  of  a  breed  of  live- 
stock comes  usually  through  a  few  leaders 
adapted  to  that  kind  of  wo^k  and  the  im- 
provement of  the  Duroc  is  no  exception. 
Early  in  the  history  you  find  the  names  of 
Clark  Pettit  of  New  York,  John  S.  Collins 
of  New  Jersey,  Morton  of  Ohio,  Railsback, 
Browning,  Bennett  and  Stoner  of  Illinois, 
Holmes  of  Iowa,  formerly  of  New  York. 
Ingram  of  Illinois,  Roberts,  Stribling  and 
West  of  Iowa,  Harris  and  Crabb  of  Ken- 
tucky, Searle  of  Nebraska  and  Stonebraker 
of  Illinois,  all  of  whom  played  an  impor- 
tant part  in  the  early  advancement  of  the 
breed. 

I  fail  to  find  in  the  first  volume  of  the 
record,  issued  by  the  American,  which  was 
the  first  permanent  record  of  Duroc-Jer- 
seys  issued  by  the  breeders  of  this  breed  of 
swine,  a  name  that  appears  in  the  recent 
records  of  either  the  American  or  National 
records,  but  when  we  come  to  the  second 
volume  we  find  in  it  the  names  of  many 
familiar  present-day  breeders.  Only  a 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

few,  however,  whose  names  are  repre- 
sented in  that  volume,  are  still  active  in 
the  work.  The  first  volume  was  issued  in 
1885  and  the  second  in  1890.  The  National 
Association  was  formed  in  the  Fall  of  1891 
and  issued  its  first  volume  in  October,  1893, 
the  first  volumes  being  delivered  at  the 
World's  Fair  show  in  .Chicago  in  October, 
1893,  at  a  called  meeting  of  the  Board,  held 
at  that  time.  At  that  meeting  strong  reso- 
lutions were  passed,  copies  of  which  were 
forwarded  to  every  fair  association  of  the 
country,  asking  that  a  distinct  class  be 
made  for  Durocs.  Only  in  a  few  of  the 
leading  state  fairs  were  these  classes  made 
prior  to  1893,  but  the  Durocs  had  been 
showing  against  other  small  breeds  at  that 
time. 

Connected  with  the  early  history  of  im- 
proved and  recorded  Durocs  we  find  A.  In- 
gram, Pittsford  &  Railsback,  J.  M.  Brown- 
ing, G.  W.  Stoner,  Thos.  Bennett  and  C.  J. 
Stuckey  in  Illinois;  Wm.  Holmes  &  Son, 
J.  W.  Doak,  J.  M.  Shaw  and  A.  Failor, 
Iowa;  Thos.  Lovelock  and  Wm.  Brad- 
bury, Virginia;  F.  D.  Curtis,  New  York; 
H.  C.  Stoll,  Nebraska;  R.  L.  Williams, 
Kentucky ;  Clark  Pettit,  New  Jersey ;  P.  C. 
McClure,  Samuel  Taylor,  Ohio;  R.  H. 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Gage  and  Geo.  A.  Lytle,  Wisconsin.  These 
names  appear  very  often  in  Volume  I  of  the 
American  record.  In  the  second  and  third 
volumes  we  find  the  names  of  J.  M.  Stone- 
braker,  Jos.  Vogel,  Illinois;  S.  E.  Morton, 
Ohio;  Amos  Harris,  Kentucky;  Herring 
&  Hummer,  Iowa;  G.  W.  Witham,  Illi- 
nois; John  S.  Collins,  N.  J. ;  I.  M.  Stansell, 
Illinois;  Rankin  &  Son,  Illinois;  William 
Roberts  and  J.  W.  Stribling,  Iowa.  The 
leading  families  of  the  breed  and  the  hun- 
dreds of  noted  animals  produced  by  their 
blood  lines,  with  but  few  exceptions,  trace 
directly  to  animals  recorded  in  Volumes 
1,  2  and  3  of  the  American  record,  bred  by 
these  breeders  whose  names  we  have  here 
listed. 

J.  M.  Stonebraker's  first  recorded  boar 
was  Ben  Butler  1387,  by  Dan  Voorhees  Jr. 
323,  by  old  Dan  Voorhees,  unrecorded. 
Dan  Voorhees  Jr.  was  used  by  Railsback 
&  Pittsford  of  Hopedale,  111.,  breeders  who 
in  1882-3  and  -4  were  showing  Durocs  at 
the  principal  western  shows. 

J.  M.  Browning's  foundation  herd  was 
eleven  sows,  purchased  from  A.  Ingram, 
being  a  combination  of  Ingram's  and 
Bradbury's  breeding,  the  latter  a  resident 
of  Virginia.  One  of  these  eleven  sows  was 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

later  the  dam  of  British  Wonder  917,  a 
famous  show  hog  in  the  Browning  &  Son 
herd,  grand  champion  at  Illinois  fair,  1890, 
and  other  early  shows.  British  Wonder 
917  was  by  Perry  Duke  185,  the  latter  com- 
ing from  the  Tom  Bennett  herd  and  was 
sired  by  Red  Chief,  unrecorded,  who  was 
also  the  sire  of  Red  Jacket  No.  1,  the  first 
Duroc  boar  ever  put  on  record.  The  dam 
of  British  Wonder  was  Queen  of  the  West 
530,  a  sow  from  the  Ingram  herd. 

William  Roberts'  first  recorded  herd 
boar  was  Alexis,  from  the  same  herd  men- 
tioned above  (Railsback  &  Pittsford),  and 
was  first  at  St.  Louis,  1882,  second  at  Iowa, 
1883,  Nebraska  1883.  Later  he  used  Her- 
man H.  from  the  Herring  &  Hummer  herd, 
a  boar  tracing  to  Climax  21,  winner  at 
New  Orleans  in  1885  and  seven  big  fairs  in 
1884;  further  on  in  his  work  of  construct- 
ing Durocs,  Mr.  Roberts  used  Delay  3167, 
by  Troubadour  and  Supply  4563,  both  of 
which  he  bought  from  the  Morton  herd, 
the  latter  being  sired  by  Col.  M.,  the  foun- 
dation of  the  Colonel  family.  Columbian 
Duke  3457  was  also  raised  in  this  herd  in 
the  early  90s  and  his  get  was  at  Chicago, 
his  breeding  tracing  to  the  C.  J.  Stuckey 
herd  of  Illinois  (now  a  breeder  of  Ohio). 

is 


HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Mr.  Roberts  also  used  Exchanger  2539a- 
159n,  bred  by  N.  Harrington  of  Iowa,  and 
sired  by  Imperial  2nd,  by  Monas  Imperial 
and  out  of  the  sow  Mona  2nd.  The  dam  of 
Exchanger  was  a  full  sister  of  his  sire, 
making  Exchanger  an  inbred  boar.  This 
boar  was  later  sold  to  Mr.  Stonebraker  of 
Illinois  and  was  shown  in  Chicago  in  1893, 
winning  in  the  aged  class,  and  he  also 
placed  several  of  his  get  in  the  winnings. 
Exchanger  was  an  inbred  Holmes  boar, 
tracing  through  both  his  sire  and  dam  to 
Mona  2nd,  winner  at  New  Orleans  in  1885, 
Des  Moines  '83,  and  Ottumwa  '84,  and 
Chicago  at  the  old  exposition  in  '81.  Fur- 
ther along  in  the  Roberts'  herd  Allison  was 
purchased  of  Walter  Abernathy  of  Indiana 
and  about  the  time  of  the  World's  Fair  in 
Chicago  Mr.  Roberts  purchased  the  great 
show  sow  Ohio  Anna  10068,  foundation 
sow  of  the  Ohio  Anna  family  and  dam  of 
the  Orions.  Roberts  &  Sons'  name  became 
synonymous  with  good  Durocs,  and  this 
firm  was  a  leader  in  Iowa  improvement  for 
a  good  many  years.  Old  Orion  was  pur- 
chased by  them  in  1895  and  crossed  with 
Ohio  Anna  8th,  producing  Orion  2nd. 

The  brightest  light  that  guided  the  way 
for  Duroc  improvement  in  pioneer  days 

1G 


Long  Gano  536804n 


Grand    Champion   Duroc   Jersey    Sow   at   the    Nebraska    State 
Pair  and  the  National  Swine  Show,  1918 


Long   Gano 
536804n 

rVictor  Gano 
171513 

Special   Queen 
461218n 

rCol.  Gano 
103963 

1  Harding's 
Model  5th 
L     290426 

fGolden  Model 
32nd  130865 

-{ 

rKing  the  Col. 
J       89533n 
1  Crimson  Lady 
I      182778 

rHarding's 
King   of 
J       Cols.  81189 
"1  Harding's 
Model   2nd 
L      246670 

fGolden  Model 
J       2nd  77339 
1  Model  Queen 
^      2nd    310150n 

HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

and  the  star  that  led  through  many  trying 
years,  a  man  to  whom  Durocs  and  Duroc 
breeders  owe  more  than  to  any  one  man 
for  breed  building  and  for  swine  leader- 
ship in  his  day  and  time,  came  upon  the 
scene  of  action  early  in  the  /80s  and  by 
his  knowledge  of  mating  and  his  master 
mind  in  constructive  breeding,  laid  the 
foundation  for  several  of  the  most  noted 
families  the  breed  has  ever  known.  The 
world  has  produced  no  greater  construc- 
tive swine  breeder  than  Sam  Morton  of 
Ohio.  The  foundation  of  his  recorded  herd 
was  Derby  3962,  Molly  Ann  3964,  Mora 
3966,  Java  3968  and  Vernal  2nd  3970,  pur- 
chased from  the  Browning  herd  in  Illinois, 
and  on  the  same  trip  to  the  Sucker  State  he 
purchased  Champion  Wonder  1299  from 
Andrew  Ingram.  The  sows  mentioned 
were  all  daughters  of  British  Wonder  917 
and  out  of  Vernal  998,  tracing  to  Nero  205 
from  the  William  Holmes  herd.  Champion 
Wonder  was  by  the  same  sire  as  British 
Wonder  and  out  of  Success  2nd  2668,  by 
Perry  Duke,  the  latter  sire  of  both  British 
Wonder  and  Champion  Wonder.  The  fa- 
mous Duchess  sows  of  the  Morton  herd 
were  founded  on  one  of  these  sows,  Vernal 
2nd  3970.  She  was  mated  to  Granville  2nd 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

1301,  whose  dam  was  by  Perry  Duke,  and 
who  on  his  sire's  side  was  a  great-grandson 
of  Perry  Duke.  Of  this  cross  came  Vernal 
2nd's  daughter.  In  four  generations  of 
Vernal  2nd's  daughter's  pedigree,  Perry 
Duke,  the  foundation  boar,  appears  four 
times.  Vernal  2nd's  daughter  was  mated 
to  King  Stoner  1661,  producing  Duchess 
2nd  5932.  King  Stoner  was  from  the  G.  W. 
Stoner  herd  of  Illinois,  was  sired  by  Prince 
Apollo,  a  boar  of  the  Holmes  and  Clark 
pedigree.  Duchess  2nd  was  later  mated 
to  Troubadour  2255  by  Doak  2nd,  bred  by 
Mr.  Doak,  of  Iowa,  and  produced  Duchess 
9th.  Duchess  9th  was  second  aged  sow  at 
the  Columbian  Show  of  '93.  There  is  little 
doubt  that  this  intense  breeding  brought 
about  by  the  commingling  of  these  blood 
lines  and  by  the  adding  of  an  occasional 
outcross  produced  as  good  a  family  of 
sows  as  has  ever  been  known.  Duchess  9th 
was  bred  to  Colongues  by  Legal  Tender, 
by  King  Stoner ;  Legal  Tender's  dam  being 
by  Morton's  Perfection,  a  sow  tracing  di- 
rectly back  to  Mora,  one  of  Morton's  foun- 
dation sows.  Duchess  19th  was  produced 
by  this  cross  to  Colongues,  and  she  was 
mated  to  Storm  Kine,  a  boar  tracing  di- 
rectly back  to  the  Duchess  sows  and  Duch- 

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ess  32nd  resulted  from  this  cross.  Duchess 
40th  was  produced  by  the  mating  of  Walts 
Col.  to  Duchess  32nd  13364,  just  men- 
tioned in  the  preceding  sentence.  This 
latter  cross  threw  in  another  tracing  to  Trou- 
badour, another  to  King  Stoner,  and  an- 
other still  to  Mora,  the  show  sow  men- 
tioned previously.  Duchess  40th  18958  was 
mated  to  Protection  and  produced  Ohio 
Chief  and  Chief  of  Ohio.  She  was  mated 
to  Orion  2nd  and  produced  Top  Notcher, 
the  head  of  the  Top  Notcher  family,  and 
was  mated  to  Morton's  King  and  produced 
Winchester  Chief  10077,  a  boar  that  added 
size  and  strength  to  Indiana  Durocs. 

Thos.  Bennett  of  Illinois  bought  few 
boars  from  other  breeders,  preferring  to 
line  and  interbreed,  for  during  the  '80s  and 
early  '90s  we  find  but  two  boars  in  use  in 
his  herd  from  outside  breeding.  One  was 
Oswego  665  by  old  Dan  Voorhees,  un- 
recorded, mentioned  heretofore  as  being 
used  in  the  Railsback  &  Pittsford  herd. 
The  other  was  Legal  Tender  2179,  pur- 
chased from  S.  E.  Morton  after  the  latter 
breeder  had  used  him  some  time.  Boars 
of  his  own  breeding  used  in  these  dozen 
or  more  years  were  Chickasaw  Chief  1551, 
Choctaw  Chief  1553,  Conqueror  2181,  Joe 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

the  Banker  1955,  Cuckoo  3063,  and  the 
latter's  son,  Hero  1955,  grand  champion 
boar  in  his  under  year  form  at  Chicago, 
'93.  The  get  of  Cuckoo  showed  splendidly 
at  this  fair  and  the  old  boar  himself  lacked 
fitting  or  would  have  given  Col.  M.  a  hard 
tussle  for  first  honors  in  the  top  class. 
Choctaw  Chief  was  out  of  Minnesota  702, 
a  winner  at  the  old  exposition  in  Chicago 
in  '81. 

Amos  Harris  of  Kentucky  was  the  most 
southerly  located  of  any  breeder  recording 
in  these  early  days,  and  he  was  using  La- 
foon  1315  from  the  Stoner  breeding;  Mor- 
ton 2305,  a  King  Stoner  boar,  from  the 
Morton  herd;  Edgemont  2625,  a  Trouba- 
dour boar  from  the  same  herd;  Hummer 
3371  from  the  Herring  &  Hummer  herd, 
and  Guy  Wilkes  3459  from  the  Ingram 
herd. 

G.  W.  Stoner  of  Illinois  used  old  Breck- 
enridge  387,  a  boar  produced  at  Brecken- 
ridge,  Mo.,  and  a  boar  recognized  at  that 
time  as  having  wonderful  stretch  and  size 
and  vigor.  Prince  Apollo,  his  son,  was  also 
used  in  this  herd  and  later  on  Royal  Duke 
1357  from  Rankin  &  Son  of  Illinois;  Cam- 
den  Prince  1615  from  the  Morton  herd, 

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sired  by  Champion  Wonder  1299,  brother 
to  British  Wonder,  was  also  used. 

Mr.  J.  H.  Lathrop  of  Iowa  used  in  his 
herd  a  boar  by  Iowa  Champion,  from  the 
Hubbard  herd,  and  sows  from  the  Stuckey 
and  Morton  herd. 

Our  object  in  giving  these  paragraphs 
regarding  these  boars,  is  to  bring  to  your 
mind  the  amount  of  buying  and  selling  of 
herd  boars  that  was  going  on  between  the 
different  sections  of  the  country.  With 
the  few  exceptions  we  have  given  you  the 
breeding  and  the  boars  used  in  these  herds 
for  ten  or  twelve  years  before  the  Colum- 
bian Exposition,  1893,  the  first  place  that  the 
Durocs  had  been  accorded  a  place  worthy 
of  their  standing  in  any  show  of  world 
wide  significance.  The  show  at  Chicago 
brought  together  the  herds  of  Ohio,  Illi- 
nois, Nebraska  and  Iowa.  The  show  was 
judged  by  J.  A.  Countryman,  of  Rochelle, 
Illinois,  who  was  assisted  by  D.  J.  Spauld- 
ing,  of  Black  River  Falls,  Wisconsin.  The 
herds  represented  were  that  of  Morton, 
Bennett,  Searle,  Stonebraker,  Chandler  & 
Son  (Nebraska),  Walter  &  Bro.,  Roberts 
&  Son,  G.  W.  Trone,  J.  H.  Lathrop.  There 
was  a  variety  of  type  found  among  the 
boars  of  the  several  classes  but  from  the 

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best  account  of  the  show  put  in  print  at 
that  time,  for  which  we  are  indebted  to 
the  Breeders'  Gazette,  it  would  seem  that 
the  judges  succeeded  in  placing  animals 
worthy  of  the  position  he  gave  them. 
Hero,  the  Grand  Champion  boar,  was 
surely  best  of  the  male  section,  and  was 
awarded  that  place  after  being  placed  at 
the  head  of  the  under:year  class.  The 
sows  of  the  show,  as  they  do  many  times 
in  our  later  contests,  made  more  pleasing 
appearance  and  showed  more  even  type. 
Lucy  Wonder,  the  head  of  the  great  Won- 
der family  of  sows  was  placed  at  the  top 
in  the  aged  class.  Duchess  9th,  men- 
tioned heretofore  in  these  pages,  being 
second.  Some  mighty  choice  things  in 
the  pig  class  came  to  light  from  the  Ben- 
net  herd,  daughters  of  Cuckoo,  already 
mentioned.  They  showed  considerable 
length,  well  backed,  and  hammed  and  lots 
of  finish  and  quality.  In  closing  the  ac- 
count of  this  sow  the  Breeders'  Gazette 
states  that  the  judge  would  not  have  gone 
wrong  if  he  had  turned  Lucy  Wonder 
down  for  Champion  and  placed  the  purple 
on  Bennett's  under-twelve-month  pig, 
Brightness. 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

sition  old  Orion  was  farrowed  on  the  N. 
P.  Clark  farm  at  Monticello,  Iowa,  and 
was  shown  with  his  litter  mates  at  Des 
Moines  that  Fall.  The  history  of  this  boar 
and  his  litter  mates  and  their  progeny 
form  a  prominent  part  of  Duroc  lore  from 
1895  to  1900. 

About  1890  in.  Northwest  Iowa  another 
breeder  of  Durocs  was  gathering  a  herd 
destined  to  play  an  important  part  in  de- 
veloping the  good  feeding  qualities  and 
increasing  the  popularity  of  Durocs  in  the 
Corn  Belt.  O.  S.  West,  of  Iowa,  gathered 
his  breeding  hogs  from  the  various  good 
herds.  Among  his  first  boars  was  one 
called  Crimson  Wonder  2813,  by  Trojan, 
from  the  Roberts  herd.  He  also  used 
Banker  Boy  from  the  Morton  herd,  he  by 
Geo.  W.  S.,  by  old  Breckenridge,  hereto- 
fore mentioned;  Banker  and  Highland 
King,  by  Hoosier  King,  from  the  Stuckey 
herd.  Czar  Nicholas,  by  Coulongues. 
Some  excellent  constructive  breeding  was 
done  in  this  herd. 

In  the  latter  '90s  many  boars  were 
changing  owners  back  and  forth  from  East 
to  West  and  vice  versa.  Showing  at  state 
fairs  had  continued  with  the  impetus  given 
by  the  Columbian  Exposition.  At  one 

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time  Morton  &  Co.,  a  firm  composed  of 
S.  E.  Morton,  Walter  Abernathy  and  E. 
M.  Borradaile,  bought  four  boars  from 
Wm.  Roberts  &  Son.  Two  of  these  were 
Allison,  Jr.,  and  Hustler,  sired  by  Allison 
5267,  the  latter  sired  by  Panic  4107,  a  boar 
that  Roberts  had  purchased  from  Morton 
&  Co.  a  few  years  before.  They  also 
bought  Orion  II  6537,  by  old  Orion,  out 
of  Ohio  Anna  10068.  Another  one  was 
Bally  Trally  6545,  also  by  Panic.  By  this 
purchase  they  secured  boars  of  practically 
the  same  line  of  breeding  of  their  sows 
and  intensified  that  blood  in  their  offspring. 
This  firm  had  previously  produced,  namely 
in  '94  and  '95,  Walts  Col.  5795,  and  Pro- 
tection 4697,  the  former  a  son  of  Col.  M., 
and  the  latter  a  son  of  Coulongues,  the 
Bennett  herd  header.  Around  the  story 
and  names  in  this  paragraph  lie  the  foun- 
dation of  the  Protections,  the  Colonels, 
and  the  Orion  Chief  families. 

Besides  using  old  Orion  and  Allison  at 
this  time  the  Roberts  were  using  to  good 
advantage  the  hog  called  Awake,  by  John, 
the  latter  a  son  of  Cuckoo  3063,  from  the 
Bennett  herd.  Orion,  Jr.,  about  this  time 
went  to  an  Indiana  herd  as  did  Orion  R., 
both  out  of  old  Orion.  These  went  to 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Finch  and  Pearson,  of  Indiana.  Roberts 
also  bought  a  Protection  boar  called  I  See. 
They  also  used  Zeek,  a  winner  in  the  pig 
classes  at  the  Columbian  in  '93.  ].  W. 
Stribling,  of  Iowa,  had  a  Protection  bred 
boar  called  Ohio  Tom,  as  did  also  J.  Ben- 
son &  Son,  of  Iowa.  During  these  years 
from  '80  to  '90,  the  Browning  herd  in  Illi- 
nois was  using  such  boars  as  Col.  Wonder 
3817,  by  British  Wonder,  and  a  grandson 
of  Iowa  Champion  2443,  and  General  Ly- 
ons from  the  Morton 'herd.  It  was  during 
these  years  that  the  son,  Harry  E.,  so  well 
known  in  later  years  in  the  Duroc  world 
took  the  reins  of  the  herd  and  continued 
to  build  one  of  the  most  famous  the  breed 
has  ever  known.  Columbian  Chief,  by 
Col.  Wonder,  by  British  Wonder,  Vermil- 
lion  Prince,  by  Col.  Champion,  and  Wal- 
ters Onward  from  the  Walters  herd,  were 
used. 

About  this  time,  Walter  &  Bro.,  of  Ohio, 
had  developed  Tom  Wonder  6061  and  U. 
S.  Wonder  6057,  out  of  Lucy  Wonder 
6334.  These  breeders  perfected  the  Lucy 
Wonder  family  and  the  Walts  Duchess 
family  of  sows.  Mr.  Mahan,  father  of  the 
present  Duroc  man,  C.  E.,  founded  his 
wonderful  herd  of  sows  on  a  litter  sister 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

of  Lucy  Wonder.  In  the  Bennett  herd, 
Referee,  by  the  Grand  Champion  Hero, 
was  being  used  to  good  advantage  and  the 
blood  of  this  Grand  Champion  was  dif- 
fused into  many  of  the  prominent  herds 
of  the  time,  one  son  going  to  the  Reed 
herd  in  Iowa  in  '99.  In  Nebraska  the 
Searles  had  developed  Aksarben,  Jr.,  and 
in  Ohio  the  Mortons  had  perfected  the 
Col.  M's  Variety  family  of  sows  and  had 
added  a  boar  from  the  Stoner  herd  called 
Royal  LeGrande,  a  boar  tracing  back 
through  the  H.  W.  Mumford  herd  of 
Michigan  and  a  boar  that  was  almost  an 
entire  outcross  for  Protection  and  Col.  M. 
sows. 

It  was  late  in  the  '90s  when  another  man 
entered  the  Duroc  arena,  a  man  who  was 
destined  to  be  a  leader,  a  man  who  had 
the  instinct  of  the  constructive  breeder  and 
the  knowledge  of  the  requirements  of  a 
good  hog  and  had  the  tenacity,  vigor,  and 
push  to  get  rapidly  towards  the  front  and 
during  all  the  years  from  the  time  he  em- 
barked in  Duroc  work  and  got  well  under 
way,  his  herd  has  been  in  the  lime  light 
and  many  noted  breeding  animals 
have  gone  out  from  this  headquarters. 
The  first  recorded  animals  owned  by  Ira 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Jackson,  of  Ohio,  was  Longfellow  6815, 
from  the  Walter  &  Bro.  herd  and  Lord 
Clinton,  a  Col.  M.  boar,  from  the  Morton 
herd.  He  also  had  sows  from  the  C.  C. 
Brawley  herd  and  the  Morton  herd,  and 
it  was  one  of  these  latter,  Agnes  X.  15250, 
that  he  crossed  with  old  Longfellow  that 
produced  Mabel,  the  dam  of  Orion  Chief, 
head  of  the  Orion  Chiefs  and  the  Orion 
Cherry  King  families,  so  popular  at  this 
writing.  The  sire  of  Orion  Chief,  Orion 
II  6537,  and  Chief  of  Ohio  9775,  a  litter 
mate  to  Ohio  Chief,  were  purchased  from 
Morton.  Surprise,  probably  one  of  the 
greatest  individuals  produced  in  the  early 
part  of  1900,  was  by  Chief  of  Ohio,  out  of 
Mayflower,  a  daughter  of  Lord  Clinton. 

One  of  the  early  boars  of  the  R.  C.  Watt 
herd  in  Ohio  was  Moquette  3415,  a  son  of 
Duke  of  Star  Herd,  a  winner  at  the  Co- 
lumbian Exposition.  Mr.  Watt  had  pur- 
chased him  from  Walter  &  Bro.,  as  he  had 
also  Dora  Wonder,  a  daughter  of  Lucy 
Keever,  and  in  this  herd  King  Watt  was 
also  used.  Bob  Watt  developed  the  sow 
family  of  Cedarville  Queens,  the  original 
Cedarville  Queen  being  a  daughter  of  Van- 
Ausdal's  Best,  a  sow  tracing  to  Hoosier 
King  through  the  Abernathy  herd  and  the 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Tom  Bennett  herd.  The  sire  being  Can- 
non Ball,  tracing  directly  back  to  old 
North  Star  in  the  Stoner  herd  in  Illinois. 
Uncle  Tom,  a  boar  from  the  Tom  Ben- 
nett herd,  was  next  used,  he  by  Chica- 
mauga  by  Rattler,  a  boar  from  the  Stoner 
herd.  From  the  Morton  herd  Mr.  Watt 
purchased  Top  Notcher,  then  from  the 
cross  of  Top  Notcher  and  the  Cedarville 
sows,  many  noted  boars  were  sent  to  dif- 
ferent sections  of  the  country.  One  of 
these  that  placed  considerable  improve- 
ment in  the  Western  and  Northwestern 
Durocs  was  Malcolm  Model,  a  boar  going 
to  Wm.  Malcolm,  of  Minnesota. 

It  was  about  this  time  that  Commodore 
13385  came  upon  the  scene  in  the  Bennett 
herd.  He  was  produced  practically  from 
the  Bennett  breeding,  from  early  founda- 
tion animals,  and  aside  from  Hero,  the 
Grand  Champion  at  the  World's  Fair  at 
Chicago,  1893,  was  the  most  prominent 
boar  ever  in  the  Bennett  herd. 

During  this  period  of  the  eight  or  ten 
years  which  we  have  covered  in  reciting 
the  advancement  and  improvement  in  the 
blood  lines  of  the  herds  in  Ohio  and  other 
Eastern  sections,  the  interest  in  the  West 
had  increased  by  leaps  and  bounds  and 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

hundreds  of  new  men  were  laying  the 
foundations  of  herds  which  produced  the 
animals  whose  history  leads  so  intimately 
into  the  story  of  Durocs  in  Western  ter- 
ritory. It  was  also  during  this  period  that 
the  public  sale  idea  of  pure  bred  animals 
was  developed  in  the  Duroc  breed,  and  as 
far  as  the  writer  is  able  to  learn,  this  was 
developed  both  in  the  West  and  in  the 
East  at  about  the  same  time.  One  of  the 
first  public  sales  attempted  was  at  the 
Iowa  State  Fair  grounds  in  1894,  by  J.  H. 
Lathrop,  of  Oxford  Junction.  He  was  his 
own  auctioneer,  and  compelled  to  stop 
before  the  sale  was  over  on  account  of  a 
lack  of  patronage.  In  the  winter  of  '96 
this  same  man  had  a  closing  out  sale,  the 
average  being  about  $35  or  $40,  the  top 
sow  bringing  $60,  and  purchased  by  O.  S. 
West,  of  Paullina,  Iowa.  Mr.  Wm.  Rob- 
erts &  Son  had  held  some  early  sales  along 
about  the  same  years  between  '96  and  '98. 
I  think  the  first  public  sale  of  Durocs  in 
the  central  hog  states,  at  least  in  Illinois, 
was  the  same  of  Geo.  W.  Trone  in  1896. 

^  In  1898,  Mr.  J.  C.  Woodburn,  of  Mary- 
ville,  Mo.,  held  his  first  sale.  In  the  East, 
Morton  &  Co.  lead  with  these  public  ven- 
dues,  and  Dr.  Burkhardt,  of  Cincinnati, 


HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Ohio,  held  several  sales  as  did  several  com- 
binations of  Ohio  and  Indiana  breeders 
later  on.  It  was  not  until  after  the  World's 
Fair  at  St.  Louis  in  1904  that  these  sales 
throughout  the  hog  belt  became  general 
and  were  adopted  by  nearly  all  of  the  lead- 
ing breeders. 

During  the  interim  between  the  Chicago 
Exposition  and  the  St.  Louis  Exposition 
a  world  of  new  herds  were  developed.  Es- 
pecially was  the  business  active  in  the 
West  in  the  territory  where  more  hogs  are 
raised  to  the  square  mile  than  any  place 
else  in  the  world.  Such  men  as  Geo. 
Briggs,  Gilbert  VanPatten,  H.  B.  Louden, 
Smith  and  Arch  Brown,  of  Nebraska;  R. 
J.  Harding,  Johnson  Bros.,  H.  C.  Sheldon, 
John  Henderson,  of  Iowa;  McFarland 
Bros.,  W.  L.  Addy,  J.  C.  Woodburn,  of 
Missouri;  John  L.  Hunt,  of  Marysville, 
Kansas,  and  many  others  had  come  to  the 
front  with  good  herds,  among  them  being 
G.  W.  Seckman,  of  Illinois,  who  attended 
his  first  public  sale  at  Geo.  W.  Trones' 
and  paid  $85  for  a  sow  called  Grace  Dar- 
ling, and  lafd  the  foundation  of  a  great 
herd.  He  later  attended  the  Andrew  In- 
gram sale  and  bought  the  sow,  Hattie  Gold 
Dust,  that  laid  the  foundation  for  the  Gold 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Dust  herd  and  family  of  sows  which  were  so 
well  represented  in  the  winnings  at  St.  Louis 
in  1904.  A.  F.  Russell,  of  Missouri;  C.  W. 
and  Wm.  Reed,  Iowa ;  S.  Y.  Thornton,  Mis- 
souri ;  C.  R.  Doty,  Illinois ;  O.  W.  Browning, 
O.  N.  Woody,  Harry  Pfander,  E.  P.  Wat- 
son, O.  E.  Osborn,  S.  E.  McCullough,  David 
Nauman,  A.  P.  Alsin,  H.  L.  Cantine,  Iowa; 
T.  L.  Livingston,  Jacob  Wernsman,  the 
Manleys  and  Wm.  Stufrt,  of  Nebraska; 
Kraschel  &  Son,  of  Illinois.  All  these  were 
building  strong  herd  foundations  as  these 
years  passed. 

Two  of  the  early  boars  of  Nebraska,  to 
which  the  breed  is  indebted  for  improve- 
ment and  especial  recognition  by  the  men 
who  were  growing  pork  hogs,  were  Hig- 
gins'  Model  3251,  and  Improver  II  13365, 
both  used  in  the  Geo.  Briggs  herd,  and 
their  blood  was  widely  scattered  through 
the  West.  Higgins'  Model  came  from  a 
combination  of  Indiana  and  Iowa  breed- 
ing. Improver  II  traces  remotely  to  Cou- 
longues,  the  sire  of  Protection,  the  head 
of  the  Protection  family,  and  his  dam 
traces  through  the  Lathrop  herd  in  Iowa 
to  the  pioneer  herd  of  Bennett,  of  Illinois. 
Both  these  sires  lived  to  a  ripe  old  age, 
and  their  progeny  always  found  ready  sale. 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Other  boars  used  by  Briggs  in  an  early 
day  was  Briggs'  Choice,  a  descendant  of 
Trones'  Hero  (winner,  Chicago,  '93),  Red 
Chief  I  Am,  a  son  of  Protection,  Billie  K., 
from  the  O.  S.  West  herd;  Kantbebeat, 
Lincoln  Wonder,  by  Ohio  Chief;  Billie's 
Wonder,  Briggs'  Crimson  by  Belle's  Crim- 
son Wonder;  Crimson  Wonder  4th,  by 
Crimson  Wonder  Again.  He  also  used 
a  Golden  Model  boar  by  Golden  Model 
Again.  The  Briggs  herd  has  for  twenty 
or  more  years  been  a  leader  in  Nebraska 
in  producing  improvement  in  Durocs.  Dur- 
ing the  past  few  years,  Illustrator  II  by 
L.  E.'s  Valley  King,  and  Joe  Orion  5th  by 
Joe  Orion  2nd,  and  a  Great  Wonder  boar 
have  been  in  use. 

With  but  few  exceptions  the  main  herd 
material  we  find  recorded  in  the  National 
record  at  that  time  in  the  West  came  from 
the  herd  boars  whose  blood  lines  run  back 
to  the  Roberts,  Clark  and  Hubbard  herds  of 
Iowa,  tracing  to  boars  founded  on  the  best 
blood  they  could  buy  and  produce  any- 
where in  the  hog  belt.  Old  Crimson  Won- 
der had  been  produced  on  the  Cantine 
Farm  in  Iowa  and  sold  to  A.  T.  Cole,  of 
Nebraska,  and  in  the  latter's  closing  out 
sale  had  gone  to  W.  A.  Kirkpatrick,  of 

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Taxpayer's  Model  56529 


Grand  Champion  Duroc  Jersey  Boar  at  the  Southeastern  Fair. 
Atlanta,  1918 


/Top  Col.  25211 


Col.   32591 
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rMorton's  King- 

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I  Nellie  M. 

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1  Golden  Girl 
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^      32528 

HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Lincoln.  This  boar  is  head  of  the  great 
Crimson  Wonder  family  that  cut  more 
figure  in  the  breeding  of  the  Western 
herds  for  the  next  twelve  years  than  any 
other  one  blood  line.  He  changed  hands 
in  the  closing  out  sale  mentioned  above  at 
$695,  the  highest  price  at  that  time  that 
any  one  ever  dreamed  would  be  paid  for 
a  Duroc  boar. 

Just  before  the  World's  Fair  in  St.  Louis 
one  of  the  men  in  the  West  destined  to  cut 
more  figure  in  the  production  of  good  Du- 
rocs  and  to  lead  in  more  shows  for  a  longer 
period  of  years  than  any  one  of  the  West- 
ern breeders,  and  who  is  still  actively  en- 
gaged in  the  business,  tossed  his  hat  into 
the  ring  and  has  ever  since  that  time  been 
a  leader  in  not  only  shows  and  sales,  but 
in  real  constructive  breeding.  This  man 
is  J.  D.  Waltemeyer.  In  Volume  13,  (not 
unlucky  in  this  case),  you  will  find  the 
first  boar  recorded  in  his  name,  No.  21523, 
Iowa  Chief.  This  boar  was  bought  from 
the  Woody  Herd,  and  he  was  a  boar  ahead 
of  his  time.  His  sire  came  from  the  Addy 
herd,  tracing  back  directly  to  that  great 
sire,  Awake,  of  the  Roberts  herd,  one  of 
the  foundation  boars  of  that  herd.  Walte- 
meyer later  used  a  boar  from  the  Russell 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

herd  in  Missouri,  Bobby,  a  descendant  of 
old  Referee,  by  Hero,  the  latter  Grand 
Champion  at  Chicago,  1893.  Also  a  Mal- 
colm Model  boar  and  a  boar  called  Bugal 
Boy,  by  Keep  On  IV,  tracing  to  Reed's 
Banker,  a  boar  that  did  excellent  improve- 
ment work  in  Iowa  Durocs,  a  boar  sired 
by  old  Advance,  sire  of  Proud  Advance, 
and  whose  ancestry  traced  through  Ta- 
coma  to  Old  Orion.  Model  Boy,  a  Mal- 
colm Model  boar,  was  also  used.  In  1908 
he  bought  Golden  Model  2nd  and  since 
that  time  the  Waltemeyers  have  builded 
one  of  the  best  strains  the  Durocs  have 
ever  known — the  Golden  Models,  using 
sows  of  Ohio  Chief  and  Crimson  Wonder 
breeding  with  a  dash  of  Colonel  blood  and 
such  boars  as  Model  Chiefs  Last,  by  Mod- 
el Chief  2nd  by  Model  Chief  by  Ohio 
Chief;  Sensation  Wonder,  grandson  of 
Crimson  Wonder  Again,  and  Golden 
Model  31st,  I  Am  Golden  Model  2nd, 
Grand  Model  and  others.  More  recently 
they  brought  into  the  herd  Great  Wonder, 
a  boar  bearing  the  blood  of  Ohio  Chief, 
Crimson  Wonder,  Orion,  the  Colonels  and 
Critics,  a  boar  of  splendid  feeding  and 
breeding  qualities.  The  Golden  Models 
through  the  Waltemeyer  efforts  took  a 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

lead  in  Western  Durocs,  and  are  admired 
for  their  smoothness,  symmetry,  and  won- 
derful feeding  qualities.  Among  the  show 
and  breeding  boars  produced  from  Golden 
Model  II  are  Grand  Model,  Golden  Model 
llth,  Golden  Model  34th,  Chief  Model  2nd, 
High  Model,  Blue  Ribbon  Model,  Chief 
Model,  Golden  Model  17th,  Chiefs  Model 
III,  Golden  Model  31st,  Foxey  Model, 
Golden  Model  30th,  W.  B.'s  Golden  Model 
and  Golden  Model  5th.  I  Am  Golden 
Model  2nd  was  one  of  the  good  breeding 
sons  of  Golden  Model  2nd. 

The  St.  Louis  Duroc  Show,  1904,  seems 
now  like  a  small  show  in  numbers  with  only 
348  head  on  the  grounds.  A  larger  num- 
ber of  the  breed  had  been  counted  in  sev- 
eral State  Fairs  in  the  West  prior  to  that 
time,  but  it  brought  the  best  from  nearly 
every  section  of  the  country,  and  it  was  a 
really  high  class  show,  for  the  time  which 
the  breeders  had  been  constructively  en- 
gaged in  perfecting  this  new  breed  of  hogs. 
It  was  the  first  time  that  the  representa- 
tive farmers  from  all  corners  of  the  globe 
had  the  opportunity  to  see  real  Duroc  hogs 
in  their  good  form,  and  I  have  heard  lead- 
ing men  of  other  breeds  say  that  our  show 
at  St.  Louis  set  the  pace  for  the  large  type 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

hog  which  is  in  such  demand  today,  and 
for  which  every  one  is  striving.  Our 
breeders  at  that  show  exhibited  strong, 
vigorous,  somewhat  coarse,  boars,  that 
showed  that  they  were  real  producers  and 
they  attracted  the  attention  of  the  visiting 
farmers  and  feeders.  The  names  of  the 
winners  in  that  show  and  the  names  of 
their  progeny  have  become  household 
words  wherever  Durocs  are  known.  Such 
hogs  as  Ohio  Chief,  Kruger,  Top  Notcher 
King,  Kant  Be  Beat,  Tip  Top  Notcher, 
Commodore,  Jumbo  Perfection,  Orion 
Chief,  High  Chief,  Crimson  Wonder,  Ad- 
vancer, Top  Notcher  Chief,  Medoc,  Model 
Chief,  Tom  Watson,  Dotie  (Grand  Cham- 
pion sow),  Xenia  Belle,  Roberta,  Lady 
Advance,  Lady  Orion,  Daisy  Improver, 
Cedarvale  Queen  8th,  Vic's  Bell,  Crimson 
Lady,  The  Genevieves,  Cols.  Belle  2nd, 
and  S.  E.'s  Model  2nd.  These  are  only  a 
few  of  the  more  than  300  winners  in  this 
show  whose  places  were  picked  by  J.  A. 
Shade,  of  Kingsley,  Iowa.  There  was 
$5,110  hung  up  in  the  regular  classes  by 
the  World's  Fair.  The  National  Associa- 
tion gave  $1,000  more,  the  American  a  silver 
trophy,  and  there  were  any  number  of 
prizes  furnished  by  the  State  Legislature. 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Johnson  Bros.,  of  Newkirk,  Iowa,  won  the 
Champion  pen  of  barrows.  The  contend- 
ers for  that  purple  show  being  H.  S.  Allen, 
of  Iowa,  with  a  pen  of  six  and  under 
twelve;  C.  R.  Doty,  of  Illinois,  on  a  pen 
under  six.  The  champion  barrow  went  to 
C.  R.  Doty.  The  champion  barrow,  any 
age,  went  to  Doty.  Messrs.  Trone,  of  Illi- 
nois; Sheldon,  of  Iowa,  being  the  winners 
in  the  other  classes  contending  for  the 
championship.  The  champion  grade  by 
recorded  sire  was  won  by  Trone,  of  Illi- 
nois. There  were  twenty-one  members  of 
the  National  who  participated  in  the  spe- 
cial prizes  hung  up  by  that  organization. 
The  following  are  winners  of  1st  and  2nd 
prizes  and  Grand  Champions  in  the  show: 

Aged  Boar — 13  shown;  1st,  Ohio  Chief, 
owned  by  S.  E.  Morton  &  Co. ;  2nd,  Kru- 
ger,  owned  by  Geo.  W.  Trone.  Top 
Notcher  King,  Kant  Be  Beat,  Top  Notcher 
Again,  Billie  K.,  King  of  Kings,  The  Lad 
For  Me  and  others  were  lower  in  the  class. 

Senior  Boars — 12  shown;  1st,  Tip  Top 
Notcher,  owned  by  Geo.  Seckman ;  2nd, 
Commodore,  owned  by  Thos.  Bennett. 
Among  the  others  in  this  class  were  Jum- 
bo Perfection,  Kant  Be  Beat  Again,  Gay 
Advance,  Searles  Olympus. 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Junior  Boars — 18  shown;  1st,  Orion 
Chief,  owned  by  Ira  Jackson ;  2nd,  Goldie's 
Top  Notcher,  owned  by  Seckman.  Among 
the  others  shown  were  Chief  Orion,  High 
Chief,  Belle's  Chief,  Matchless  Chief. 

Senior  Boar  Pigs — 23  shown;  1st,  Joe, 
owned  by  McFarland  Bros.;  2nd,  Perfec- 
tion Chief,  owned  by  Gilbert  VanPatten. 

Junior  Boar  Pigs — 32  shown;  1st,  Top 
Notcher  Chief,  owned  by  J.  A.  Teter ;  2nd, 
Checkmate,  owned  by  Seckman.  Medoc, 
Tom  Watson,  Lord  Gold  Finch,  Ideal  Top 
Notcher,  Ohio  Col,  He's  Our  Pride,  after- 
wards well  known,  were  shown  in  this 
class. 

Aged  Sows — 19  shown;  1st,  Dotie, 
owned  by  McFarland  Bros. ;  2nd.  Walt's 
Belle,  Morton  &  Co.  Nellie  A.,  Brooklyn 
Mabel,  Daisy  Maid,  Rubertha,  Walt's 
Model  and  Bessie  H.,  were  in  this  class. 

Senior  Sows — 14  shown;  1st,  My  Choice, 
Ira  Jackson ;  2nd,  Moss  Rose,  McFarland 
Bros. 

Junior  Sows — 19  shown;  1st,  Lady  Or- 
ion, Ira  Jackson;  2nd,  Chic's  Belle,  Morton 
&  Co.  Daisy  Improver,  Nellie  Wonder 
II,  Orion  Lady  and  May  Advance  were 
sows  that  became  great  producers  also  in 
this  class. 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Senior  Sow  Pigs — 30  shown;  1st,  Kant's 
Best,  Watt  &  Foust ;  2nd,  Cedarville  Queen 
VIII,  same.  Orion's  Choice,  S.  E.  Model 
IV.,  Lady  Banker  and  others  in  this  class 
came  into  prominence  later. 

Junior  Sow  Pigs — 37  shown;  1st,  Crim- 
son Lady,  by  J.  E.  Mendenhall  &  Sons; 
2nd,  Top  Notcher's  Best,  J.  A.  Teter.  Our 
Pride  II,  Queen  Genevieve,  Fashion  Queen 
XII,  Cols.  Belle  II.,  S.  E.  Model  VII.,  and 
others  in  this  class  are  well  known  to  mod- 
ern Duroc  men.  Our  Pride  II.,  in  the 
Watt  &  Foust  herd,  and  later  in  the  Mc- 
Kee  herd,  produced  excellent  get. 

Grand  Champion  Boar  —  Tip  Top 
Notcher,  Reserve  Champion,  Top  Notcher 
Chief. 

Grand  Champion  Sow — Dotie,  Reserve 
Champion,  Kant's  Best. 

A  perusal  of  these  winnings  will  show 
that  the  Top  Notchers  had  the  best  of  the 
winnings.  Old  Top  Notcher's  descend- 
ants were  represented  in  seven  of  the  first 
and  second  prize  winners:  Tip  Top 
Notcher,  Goldie's  Top  Notcher,  Top 
Notcher  Chief,  Checkmate  (by  Tip  Top 
Notcher),  Kant's  Best  (dam  by  Top 
Notcher),  Cedarville  Queen  VIII  (sired 
by  Top  Notcher),  and  Top  Notcher's  Best, 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

and  his  progeny  held  Grand  Champion  and 
Reserve  Champion  boar.  Top  Notcher 
8803  was  sired  by  Orion  II.,  out  of  Duch- 
ess 40th;  Orion  II.,  by  Old  Orion.  By 
adding  the  Jackson  winnings  to  the  above 
the  descendants  of  Old  Orion  led  by  quite 
a  margin. 

That  the  public  sale  had  come  quickly 
and  had  come  to  stay  was  evident  when  we 
find  that  something  like  75  auctions  of 
Durocs  were  booked  for  the  winter  of 
1904-05,  immediately  after  the  World's 
Fair.  Several  Fall  sales  had  been  held  pre- 
vious to  that.  Notably  among  these  was 
that  of  J.  D.  Nidlinger,  of  Decatur,  Indi- 
ana, on  Nevember  1st,  where  the  prices 
ranged  from  $15  to  $135,  the  top  price  be- 
ing paid  by  Smith  Brown,  of  Nebraska. 
History  was  written  very  rapidly  during 
the  next  few  months.  One  of  the  noted 
sales  of  that  winter  was  sows  bred  to 
Proud  Advance,  averaging  $80.  Proud 
Advance  was  a  combination  of  Orion  and 
Protection  breeding.  His  sire,  Advance, 
being  by  Tacoma,  he  by  Orion  Chief  6601 
by  Old  Orion  and  out  of  Ohio  Anna  10068. 
Proud  Advance's  dam  was  by  Malcolm 
Chief  7811  by  Jumbo  Red  by  Protection 
and  his  second  dam  traces  to  Legal  Ten- 

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Colletta  3rd  179582 


Grand    Champion    Duroc    Jersey    Sow    at    Southeastern    Fair, 
Atlanta,  1918 


Colletta  3rd 
179582 


'Cherry  King 
25979 


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126342 


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I     39756  1: 


rCherry  King 
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2nd    37535        1  King    Lady 
^     2nd  55658 

("Jack's    Friend 
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115492  1  Willetta  J. 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

der,  a  foundation  boar  used  by  Morton  and 
Stoner.  The  breed  has  never  seen  the 
superior  of  Proud  Advance  as  a  sow  sire, 
and  this  wonderful  stretch  and  smooth- 
ness had  much  to  do  with  advancing  the 
popularity  of  the  breed.  He  was  bred  by 
Johnson  Bros,  and  Reed,  of  Iowa,  was 
later  owned  by  H.  C.  Sheldon  and  the 
Manleys.  The  highest  priced  sow  of  the 
breed,  and  many  others  that  sold  well  up  to 
the  record  top,  carried  his  blood. 

Kruger,  winner  of  the  second  prize  in 
the  aged  herd  at  St.  Louis,  was  purchased 
by  Jackson  in  the  Trone  sale  for  $550  in 
February,  1905,  and  his  get  were  widely 
scattered,  Iowa  breeders  securing  one  or 
two  of  his  noted  sons.  Nebraska  Belle 
sold  that  winter  in  the  Brown  sale  (Ne- 
braska) to  R.  J.  Harding  for  $600,  and  the 
next  day  he  refused  a  check  for  $1,000  for 
her  from  Gilbert  VanPatten,  who  had 
started  for  the  sale  to  buy  the  sow,  but 
was  blocked  by  a  blizzard. 

Old  Orion  made  his  owners,  Manley  & 
Co.,  an  average  of  $73  the  same  season. 
In  Ohio  the  breeders  who  had  shown  at 
St.  Louis  staged  a  two-days  public  sale 
and  one  sow  of  Cedarville  Queen  breeding 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

sold  for  $350.  Others  sold  well  up  above 
$100. 

J.  D.  Nidlinger,  of  Indiana,  had  won 
first  at  Ohio  and  Indiana  with  Hanley,  an 
under-year  boar  by  None  Such,  from  the 
Stoner  herd,  his  dam  being  from  Echo  King 
breeding,  and  sold  him  at  public  auction 
for  $310  to  McNeil  Bros.,  of  Illinois.  Echo 
King  blood  was  later  diffused  in  Nebraska 
and  became  quite  popular. 

Crimson  Wonder  I  Am,  a  son  of  old 
Crimson  Wonder  263  5  5n,  was  Grand 
Champion,  1905,  at  Iowa,  thus  continuing 
the  champion  record  of  the  family  begun 
by  his  sire  two  years  before. 

Buddy  K.  IV.,  was  Grand  Champion  of 
Illinois,  1905,  one  of  the  largest,  coarsest, 
ruggedest  sires  the  breed  has  ever  known, 
and  while  he  was  lacking  in  quality  he  had 
many  characteristics  that  the  breed  needs 
— length,  height,  big  bone  and  an  all-over 
big  frame.  After  being  used  more  than  a 
year  at  the  head  of  the  Ed  Baxter  herd, 
after  winning  his  Championship,  he  was 
sold  on  Feb.  6,  1907,  for  $5,025  to  McNeil 
Bros.,  and  today  still  holds  the  record  of 
being  the  highest  priced  boar  of  the  breed 
sold  at  auction. 

In    the    winter  of  '05  and  '06,  in   the 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Browning  sale,  Helen  Blazes  III  sold  for 
$1,000,  the  highest  priced  sow  at  that  time. 
She  came  from  a  producing  family  of  sows 
and  her  new  owner  afterwards  sold  one 
of  her  gilts  at  private  sale  for  $1,200. 
Browning's  sale,  in  which  this  sow  sold, 
averaged  $110.50  on  39  head.  Eastern 
sales  were  increasing  in  interest  and  such 
prices  as  $121.50,  paid  by  Col.  Igleheart  in 
the  Morton  sale,  and  $317.50  by  Thos. 
Johnson  in  the  Whitehall  sale,  were  not 
uncommon.  In  the  Henry  Allen  sale  in 
Iowa,  Allen's  Maid  brought  $300,  and  R. 
J.  Harding  bought  Proud  Lady  by  Proud 
Advance  for  $1,275,  bred  to  Old  Orion  in 
the  Manley  sale. 

The  leading  Fall  shows  of  1906  pro- 
duced such  champions  as  Oom  Paul  in 
Illinois,  a  boar  owned  by  George  Trone 
and  sired  by  Jumbo  Red,  he  by  Protection. 
Jumbo  Red  was  a  noted  son  of  Protection 
that  went  into  Nebraska  and  did  much  to 
popularize  Durocs  by  producing  not  once, 
but  several  times  the  top  car  lots  on  the 
Omaha  market.  Crimson  Wonder  Again 
was  champion  at  Iowa,  making  three  gen- 
erations of  grand  champions  early  in  the 
history  of  that  noted  strain. 

In  Ohio  King's  Pal,  by  King  to  Be,  by 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Morton's  King,  won  the  purple,  and  was 
sold  to  Thos.  Johnson  at  $1,000.  He  lived 
only  a  few  months,  but  left  some  unusually 
good  get,  among  them  King  Pal's  Last, 
a  boar  that  headed  the  M.  D.  Harvey  herd 
in  Indiana,  and  sired  Pal's  Prince  and  Col- 
onade,  Indiana  Grand  Champions;  Colon- 
ade  being  also  Champion  at  the  Chicago 
International,  1912.  At  Illinois,  Commo- 
dore produced  from  the  Bennett  herd,  but 
purchased  by  Harris  &  Son,  of  Kentucky, 
won  the  purple  and  was  at  once  popular 
with  the  breeders  on  account  of  his  size, 
vigor,  bone  and  quality.  He  had  come  to 
Illinois  after  winning  at  Kentucky  and 
Tennessee.  In  the  winter  following,  his 
owners  made  an  average  of  $179.50  on 
sows  bred  to  him.  Although  he  produced 
some  good  sons  and  daughters,  he  was  a 
disappointment  as  a  real  herd  header. 

January  12,  1906,  Old  Orion  died  in  Ne- 
braska at  the  age  of  eleven  years  an  un- 
defeated boar.  He  was  shown  as  a  pig 
in  1895,  as  a  yearling  in  '96,  and  was 
Champion  at  Iowa  in  '97,  and  a  winner  at 
Omaha,  1898.  Roberts  &  Son  sold  him  to 
S.  E.  McCullough,  of  Iowa,  who  later  sold 
him  to  Manley  &  Son,  on  whose  farm  he 
died.  The  Orion  Cherry  Kings  and  many 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

of  the  Crimson  Wonders  of  today  trace  di- 
rectly to  this  great  sire. 

In  November,  1906,  a  deal  was  consum- 
mated that  gave  a  decided  impetus  to  Du- 
roc  enthusiasm,  both  East  and  West.  R. 
J.  Harding  and  O.  E.  Osborn,  of  Iowa, 
purchased  of  S.  E.  Morton  &  Co.,  Ohio 
Chief,  a  boar  sired  by  Protection,  and  out 
of  the  noted  sow,  Duchess  40th,  mentioned 
in  earlier  pages  of  this  history.  Ohio 
Chief  won  as  a  pig  and  as  a  yearling  at 
the  Chicago  Exposition  in  1900  and  1901 
and  as  aged  boar  stood  at  the  head  of  his 
class  at  St.  Louis.  He  undoubtedly  was 
the  best  boar  the  breed  had  produced,  as 
well  as  the  biggest,  up  to  this  time,  and 
although  Tip  Top  Notcher  was  given  the 
purple  at  St.  Louis  on  account  of  his  show- 
ing more  excellent  flesh,  many  at  the  ring- 
side had  picked  the  aged  boar  for  the  pur- 
ple. In  Hoarding's  first  sale  after  he  pur- 
chased the  boar,  sows  averaged  $98.30  with 
a  $730  top.  Later  the  owners  sold  a  third 
interest  to  J.  M.  Morrison,  of  Nebraska, 
for  $2,000,  the  same  amount  they  had  paid 
Morton  &  Co.  for  the  hog.  Morrison 
broke  a  partnership  agreement  by  selling 
18  sows  bred  to  him  in  one  sale  and  Messrs. 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Harding  and  Osborn  bought  him  out  and 
Ohio  Chief  died  on  the  Harding  farm. 

Tip  Top  Notcher,  the  World's  Grand 
Champion  at  St.  Louis,  produced  many 
good  sons  and  daughters,  Helen's  Tip  Top 
Notcher,  one  of  the-  former,  selling  at  a 
record  price  as  a  yearling  at  $1,000.  He 
transmitted  to  his  progeny  much  rugged- 
ness  and  prolificacy.  Geo.  Seckman,  who 
owned  and  showed  him,  sold  him  for 
$5,000  to  a  company  of  Illinois  breeders, 
but  before  the  hog  died,  Seckman  re-pur- 
chased him.  Tip  Top  Notcher  was  by 
Top  Notcher  8803,  he  by  Orion  II.,  by  Old 
Orion,  and  was  bred  by  R.  C.  Watt,  of 
Ohio.  His  sire  was  a  winner  in  Ohio 
shows,  and  his  dam  came  from  the  Morton 
line  of  Variety  sows.  A  controversy  over 
the  correctness  of  his  pedigree  came  up 
immediately  after  his  winning  at  St.  Louis, 
and  the  American  Association  at  one  time 
voted  to  not  accept  pedigrees  from  this 
breeding,  but  the  following  year  rescinded 
their  action,  the  directors  not  considering 
the  charge  backed  up  by  sufficient  evi- 
dence to  warrant  the  former  action.  The 
officers  of  the  National  Association  found 
insufficient  grounds  for  any  action,  and  its 
Board  accepted  all  pedigrees  of  his  prog- 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

eny.  Tip  Top  Notcher  is  one  of  the  few 
Durocs  who  boasts  a  marble  slab  to  mark 
his  resting  place.  Close  to  the  main  road 
on  the  Seckman  farm  in  Brown  County, 
Ills.,  the  headstone  is  plainly  visible. 

During  the  winter  sale  season  of  1906-7 
that  inflation  of  prices  that  seems  to  come 
in  cycles,  and  which  unerringly  causes  dis- 
aster to  breeds  of  live  stock  wherever  it 
attacks,  took  possession  of  all  quarters  of 
the  Duroc  selling  and  laid  the  foundation 
for  the  panic  and  depression  in  which 
many  breeders  were  mired.  The  bank 
panic  coming  late  that  year,  augmented 
the  losses  and  depression.  No  amount  of 
warning,  nor  numbers  of  wrecks  visible 
along  the  route  of  the  pure  bred  industry 
seems  to  be  of  any  service  in  such  times, 
and  although  the  breed  paper  threw  out 
signals  against  these  "frameups"  and 
fictitious  prices,  and  combinations  invented 
to  boost  prices,  little  or  no  heed  was  given. 
We  believe  space  given  here  to  one  of  the 
breed  paper's  articles  will  be  well  worth 
the  space  taken,  for  it  applies  today  as  it 
did  in  1907.  This  is  the  article: 

"Why  readers  .and  breeders  should  get 
a  wrong  impression  from  plain  English 
we  don't  know,  but  it  seems  some  have. 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Our  stand  on  the  sale  business  is  this:  We 
stand  ready  to  encourage  every  breeder 
who  desires  to  make  a  sale  of  good,  well 
bred  animals,  we  don't  care  how  high  the 
prices  are,  so  the  money  or  its  equivalent 
changes  hands.  We  are  strictly  against 
'frameups'  no  matter  whether  made  at 
a  big  sale  or  a  beginners'  sale.  No  price  is 
to  high  for  an  outstanding  individual  with 
blood  lines  that  have  shown  worth.  No 
price  is  too  low  for  a  mean,  inferior  ani- 
mal, no  matter  what  the  blood  lines. 
'Suckers'  are  not  always  men  who  pay 
the  high  prices,  for  the  men  in  the  busi- 
ness who  have  made  money  are  the  ones 
who  have  paid  high  prices  for  good  ani- 
mals. 'Suckers,'  so-called,  are  men  who 
have  been  influenced  against  their  better 
judgment  to  pay  more  than  they  can  af- 
ford to  if  the  animal  should  die.  If  there 
has  been  anything  published  by  us  that 
can  be  interpreted  as  a  discouragement  to 
the  young  breeder,  please  cite  us  to  the 
article.  We  are  for  high  prices,  but  not 
'balloon'  prices.  Somebody  will  stick  a 
pin  in  these  prices  some  day,  and  then 
what?" 

Rosebud  Lady  sold  for  $1,575  in   the 
Briggs  sale,  an  open  Proud  Advance  sow 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

brought  $500  in  the  Browning  sale.  Alix 
II,  the  Iowa  and  Nebraska  Champion,  sold 
for  $2,200  in  the  Morrison  sale.  One-half 
interest  in  Kant  Be  Beat  sold  in  the  same 
sale  for  $1,500.  Alix  II  was  a  sow  bred 
by  Manley  &  Co.,  sired  by  Proud  Advance 
out  of  an  Orion  dam.  She  never  proved  to 
be  a  real  producer.  Kant  Be  Beat  was  by 
King  Hustler  out  of  a  dam  by  Longfellow 
6815,  and  was  bred  and  shown  by  Watt 
&  Foust.  He  had  forty  or  fifty  Champion- 
ships to  his  credit.,  and  was  a  good  boar 
for  his  time.  Ceres  Belle,  a  noted  Ne- 
braska sow,  brought  $1,025.  S.  E.'s  Model 
30996,  by  Ohio  Chief,  a  sow  shown  at  St. 
Louis  and  sold  to  the  Proud  Advance  Stock 
Co.,  was  sold  in  their  sale  at  $1,060. 

Red  Wonder,  a  Pilot  Wonder  bred  hog, 
Owned  in  Illinois,  was  Grand  Champion  at 
Iowa,  1907,  and  Ruberta  G.,  full  sister  to 
Rubertha,  the  1906  Champion,  won  the 
female  purple.  Red  Wonder  was  not  an 
even  producer,  but  sired  a  few  choice 
daughters.  In  Indiana,  Col.  Scott  by  Carls 
Col.  was  Grand  Champion,  and  M.  A/s 
Model,  shown  by  the  Kraschels,  of  Illi- 
nois, was  sow  Champion.  She  afterwards 
sold  in  their  sale  for  $1,001.  She  was  a 
line  bred  Ohio  Chief  sow.  At  Nebraska, 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Lincoln  Top,  shown  by  Putman,  won  the 
lead,  and  Clay  Center  Belle,  owned  by 
Briggs,  was  at  head  of  the  sow  classes. 
Lincoln  Top  traced  to  Red  Chief  I  Am,  a 
Protection  bred  boar.  Kelly's  Pilot  Won- 
der won  the  purple  at  Ohio,  and  went  to 
Whitehall  Farm  where  he  proved  to  be  a 
great  producer.  He  was  a  grandson  of 
Old  Pilot  Wonder,  a  Jackson  show  boar. 
Pilot  Wonder  was  by  U.  S.  Duroc  by 
Walt's  Col.  out  of  a  Lucy  Wonder  sow. 
Inventor,  by  Climax  II,  won  at  Illinois, 
1907.  He  was  a  McFarland  bred  hog, 
coming  from  their  herd  to  Illinois  as  a 
pig.  He  was  sired  by  II  Climax,  sire  of 
many  of  the  McFarland  winners.  Gat- 
ton's  Perfection  was  Grand  Champion  sow 
at  Illinois,  1907,  and  afterwards  sold  at 
auction  for  $1,200,  a  Kant  Be  Beat  boar 
selling  in  the  same  sale  for  $1,295. 

During  the  winter  of  1907-'08  the  prices 
tended  to  rise  and  among  the  notable  sales 
were  Savannah  Belle  and  her  litter  of  Ohio 
Chief  pigs  at  the  Sam  Murphy  sale  for 
$3,300,  he  having  paid  $780  for  her  at  the 
Harding  sale.  She  was  a  daughter  of  the 
noted  Nebraska  Belle.  Ruberta,  dam  of 
the  Kant  Be  Beat  boar,  Dreadnaught,  sold 
to  Manley  &  Co.,  for  $2,500.  Proud  Zeda 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

by  Proud  Advance,  sold  in  the  Browning 
sale,  breaking  all  sale  records,  at  $2,600. 
A  half  interest  in  the  Champion  Lincoln 
Top  went  for  $2,650  in  the  Putman  sale. 
Sexsmith  &  Strong  sold  a  granddaughter 
of  Nebraska  Belle  for  $2,100.  A  sow  was 
sold  in  S.  E.  Morton's  sale  for  $2,800.  An 
Eds  Col.  sow  in  the  Jackson  sale  brought 
$1,000.  Johnson  Bros/  sale  in  Iowa  had 
a  $750  top.  Some  of  these  animals  made 
good  and  their  progeny  is  still  going  on 
record,  but  many  were  sold  under  enthu- 
siasm and  excitement  and  had  little  to 
recommend  them  as  valuable  additions  to 
herds. 

King  of  Cols.  16075  was  ascending  the 
scale  of  popularity  about  this  time,  and  a 
complete  history  of  his  progeny  for  a 
period  of  several  years  would  cover  a 
goodly  portion  of  the  breed's  history  for 
that  time.  He  was  bred  by  Carl  Scott, 
an  Indiana  breeder  who  did  much  to  pro- 
pagate good  Durocs  and  incidentally  pro- 
mote that  leading  family,  the  Colonels. 
Mr.  Scott  owned  Eds  Col,  and  from  him 
produced  Carls  Col.  and  in  turn  Prince  of 
Cols.  In  the  Fall  of  1905  he  showed  at 
several  fairs  in  Indiana  a  litter  of  Prince 
of  Col.  pigs  out  of  Love  35060,  among 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

which  was  the  boar  afterwards  known  as 
King  of  Cols.  He  was  never  better  than 
third,  Muncie  Chief  and  others  of  the  litter 
always  leading  him.  When  Scott  had  a 
sale  in  the  Fall,  Muncie  Chief  went  to  Col- 
bert &  Stroud,  of  Indiana,  and  was  the 
first  pick  of  a  majority  of  the  breeders 
present.  The  old  "War  Horse,"  Sam  Mor- 
ton, attended  the  sale  and  had  picked  out 
this  undeveloped  pig  as  one  worth  while, 
and  when  he  bid  him  in,  a  good  many  who 
thought  they  knew  hogs,  wondered  at  his 
choice.  This  hog  brought  Morton  more 
notice  and  more  money  than  any  he  had 
ever  owned,  and  breeders  from  all  quar- 
ters of  the  hog  kingdom  were  soon  coming 
to  him  for  King  of  Col.  get.  A  syndicate 
of  Illinois  breeders  offered  him  $10,000 
at  one  time  for  the  boar,  but  the  offer  was 
turned  down,  and  the  boar  died  on  the 
Morton  Farm  in  the  height  of  his  useful- 
ness. Among  the  show  boars  he  produced 
were  Chief's  Col.,  Defender,  King  of  Cols. 
Ideal,  Col.  S.,  King  Wonder,  Ohio  Col. 
and  Harding's  King  of  Cols,  and  a  num- 
ber of  his  daughters  were  winners  of  the 
purple.  Many  other  breeding  sons  were 
sent  out  by  Morton  into  all  section  of  the 
hog  belt  to  improve  Durocs  with  size, 


HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

stretch  and  vigor.  Among  the  most  noted 
of  these  was  King  the  Col.,  but  recently 
dead,  owned  by  Larson,  of  Iowa,  for  sev- 
eral years.  At  one  time  there  were  48 
sons  of  King  the  Col.  at  the  head  of  West- 
ern herds,  and  his  daughters  have  been 
good  producers  and  are  still  much  sought 
after  to  cross  on  top  boars  of  the  breed. 

The  get  of  old  Crimson  Wonder  was 
in  the  meantime  in  the  lead  in  Western 
herds  and  many  prominent  boars  and  pro- 
ducing sows  became  noted  in  this  work. 
Among  the  best  known  progeny  of  old 
Crimson  Wonder  were  Crimson  Wonder 
I  Am,  mentioned  in  connection  with  the 
Iowa  Championship,  his  son,  Crimson 
Wonder  Again  (dam  Orion  bred).  This 
latter  boar  crossed  with  H.  A.'s  Queen 
produced  most  of  the  noted  Crimson 
Wonder  boars,  such  as  Belle's  Crimson 
Wonder  and  Crimson  Wonder  III.,  I  Am 
Perfection  Wonder,  Nebraska  Wonder, 
Uneeda  Crimson  Wonder,  Long  Wonder, 
I  Am  a  Crimson  Wonder,  Crimson  of 
Crimson  Wonders,  Red  Chief  Wonder, 
Allen's  Wonder,  B.  &  C.'s  Crimson  Won- 
der, Belle's  Wonder,  Champ  Crow  and 
others. 

Crimson  Wonder  III,  after  winning  cham- 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

pion  at  Nebraska  Fair,  1908,  and  being  used 
some  time,  was  brought  to  Illinois  by  Brown- 
ing &  Comer,  and  when  campaigned  again 
won  1st  in  aged  class  in  three  of  our  largest 
fairs.  He  was  a  medium  sized  hog,  and 
crossed  only  fairly  well  with  the  Colonels 
and  Protections  used  in  middle  section  and 
Eastern  herds.  His  daughters  were  used  in 
many  herds  east  of  the  Mississippi,  but  only 
a  very  few  of  his  sons  proved  valuable  herd 
sires. 

Another  family  which  deserves  notice 
here  is  the  Critics.  Glendale  Critic,  the 
head  of  this  family,  was  bred  by  E.  Z.  Rus- 
sell, and  traces  through  Tolstoi,  and  Hugh 
Tucker  to  Protection,  his  dam  being  an 
Ohio  Anna  sow,  one  of  the  same  family 
from  which  came  old  Crimson  Wonder. 
Malcolm  Model,  by  Old  Top  Notcher,  was 
also  used  in  building  this  family,  as  was 
Gold  Dust  Jim  by  Liberty  Jim,  the  latter 
from  the  Roberts  herd  and  tracing  to  Al- 
lison 5267.  He  had  another  boar  also 
called  Am  Awake  by  Awake,  a  Roberts 
boar  mentioned  heretofore.  Jumbo  Critic, 
Glendale  Critic,  Jumbo  Critic  Jr.,  Critics 
Echo  and  other  boars  of  this  line  were  used 
to  further  intensify  this  blood.  Later  Mr. 
Russell  used  Proud  Chief  by  Ohio  Chief, 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

injecting  another  line  of  Protection  blood 
in  the  herd.  The  Critic  boars  were  shown 
at  Nebraska  and  Iowa  State  Fairs  in  their 
early  years  by  Mr.  Russell  and  won  many 
high  honors.  Widle  &  Sons,  of  Nebraska, 
and  other  breeders  of  that  State  have  car- 
ried the  same  blood  lines  to  the  big  shows 
and  won  coveted  prizes.  It  is  worthy  of 
note  that  the  Grand  Champion  sows  of 
both  National  Swine  Shows  held  so  far 
(1916  and  1917)  were  Critic  bred  sows. 

One  of  the  older  herds  of  Durocs  today 
and  one  of  note  for  the  line  of  high  class 
sows  produced  therein,  as  well  as  a  num- 
ber of  boars  developed,  and  one  that  has 
been  known  in  the  leading  shows  of  the 
East  for  a  longer  term  of  years  than  any 
other,  is  the  Mahan  herd,  founded  by  Mr. 
Mahan,  Sr.,  early  in  the  history  of  the 
breed's  improvement,  and  continued  by 
his  sons,  C.  E.  and  Pearl.  Nellie  Warren, 
little  sister  to  Lucy  Wonder,  of  Colum- 
bian Exposition  purple  honors,  was  one 
of  the  foundation  sows.  She  was  by  King 
Keever  by  Ohio  Bob,  he  by  Rosemond's 
Royal  from  the  Stoner  herd.  Three  sows 
from  the  Abernathy  herd  tracing  to  the 
Vernal  sows  of  the  Morton  herd  were 
added  early  in  the  herd's  history.  King 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Hustler,  a  boar  from  the  Morton  herd  and 
Bon  Ton,  from  the  same  source,  were 
boars  in  early  use.  Duchess  Czarina  and 
Duchess  Maud,  sows  by  old  Top  Notcher 
out  of  Duchess  Gem,  she  from  the  O.  Wal- 
ter herd,  were  foundation  blood.  One  of 
the  Protection  boars  they  used  was  High 
Chief  by  Chief  of  Ohio  and  they  also  had 
Orion  Boy  by  Orion  II.,  also  Top  Chief 
by  Winchester  Chief.  Later  King  to  Be 
by  Morton's  King,  out  of  a  Protection 
dam  was  used  and  Good  Choice  by  Choice 
Goods  by  Chief  of  Ohio  by  Protection. 
From  King  to  Be  they  produced  King  Vic- 
tor and  Maud  Irene,  well  known  state  fair 
winners.  Mr.  Mahan,  Sr.,  took  Champion 
boar  prize  in  the  first  State  Fair  in  Ohio 
with  a  boar  of  his  growing.  King's  Lad, 
litter  mate  to  King  Victor  was  also  used. 
Later  they  had  another  Ohio  Chief  bred 
boar,  Grand  Success,  he  by  S.  S.  Success 
by  S.  S.  Col.  by  Ohio  Chief.  Next  came 
Kruger's  Corrector  by  Kruger,  of  St.  Louis 
Fair  fame,  and  Chief  to  Be  by  Grand  Chief 
by  Ohio  Chief.  In  later  years  they  bought 
Fancy  Col.  in  the  Morton  sale,  he  by  King 
of  Cols.  II.,  by  Old  King  of  Cols.,  and  then 
Pals  Cols,  by  Premier  Col.,  by  King  of 
Cols.,  and  The  Chief  Col.  by  Cherry  Chief, 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Orion  Col.  M.  by  The  Chief  Col.,  out  of  a 
daughter  of  Orion  Chief  and  Florazel,  the 
noted  show  sow  by  Choice  Goods. 

The  sows  in  this  herd  have  always  won 
high  places  in  our  best  shows  and  from 
this  herd  many  producing  sows  as  well  as 
show  sows  went  into  all  parts  of  the  hog 
belt.  Mahan's  have  believed  that  no  boar 
is  good  enough  to  produce  the  kind  of 
hogs  they  wanted  to  grow  by  being 
crossed  on  ordinary  sows,  and  while  they 
have  produced,  grown  and  exhibited  many 
famous  boars  of  the  breed,  they  made  it 
possible  by  paying  unusual  attention  to 
selecting  only  the  very  best  sows  to  keep 
in  their  herd  to  produce  this  kind  of  get. 
The  Duroc  breed  has  suffered  for  the  want 
of  more  breeders  to  carry  out  this  same 
idea. 

After  the  death  of  King  of  Cols.,  Mor- 
ton placed  Premier  Col.,  a  son,  at  the  head 
of  his  herd,  and  he  proved  to  be  a  good 
producer,  producing  such  hogs  as  Volun- 
ter,  Pal's  Col.  and  others,  and  his  daugh- 
ters have  produced  many  good  Durocs. 
Later  he  bought  from  Johnson  &  Son,  of 
Indiana,  Morton's  Top  Col.,  a  line-bred 
boar,  being  by  Top  Col.,  out  of  an  Orion 
Chief  dam,  Top  Col.,  his  sire,  being  by 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

King  of  Cols.,  out  of  an  Orion  Chief  dam. 
This  boar  died  at  the  height  of  his  breed- 
ing age,  leaving  several  get  that  proved 
him  to  be  a  sire  of  rare  merit,  among  these 
being  American  Top  Col.,  still  owned  in 
the  Barker  herd  of  Indiana;  Perfect  Top 
Col.,  used  as  herd  header  by  Morton,  and 
later  sold  to  Truax;  Walt's  Top  Col.,  the 
latter  used  a  good  many  years  in  the  Jack- 
son herd,  and  on  the  producing  value  of 
Walt's  Top  Col.  daughters,  much  of  the 
fame  of  old  Orion  Cherry  King  is  founded. 
Walt's  Top  Col.  was  out  of  a  dam  by 
Royal  Col.,  he  by  King  of  Cols.,  making 
him  an  intensely  Colonel  bred  boar.  He 
is  still  in  use,  being  in  the  Wenger  & 
Studebaker  herds  in  Ohio;  Taxpayer  was 
another  Morton's  Top  Col.  boar  and  was 
used  by  Watt  &  Foust,  sire  of  Taxpayer 
Thirteenth,  Taxpayer's  Model  and  others. 

Orion  Chief  headed  the  Jackson  herd  for 
several  years  after  the  St.  Loui's  Show. 
Kruger  was  also  used  in  the  herd.  Orion 
Chief  was  sold  to  Thos.  Johnson  at  $3,500, 
the  record  price  at  that  time  for  a  boar  at 
private  sale.  He  was  later  sold  in  John- 
son's dispersion  sale  at  9  years  of  age,  to 
Messrs.  Matern  &  Mumford  for  $500,  and 
died  on  the  Matern  farm.  Jackson  pur- 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

chased  Cherry  King,  a  Protection  bred 
boar,  of  Morton  &  Stewart  Bros,  in  1909, 
and  founded  the  famous  Orion  Cherry 
Kings  by  crossing  him  on  Orion  Chief 
sows,  and  sows  by  sons  and  grandsons  of 
Orion  Chief.  However,  before  this  blood 
line  became  known  by  that  name  he  sold 
his  entire  herd  to  Chas.  Sprague,  includ- 
ing Cherry  King,  Jack's  Friend,  by  Joe 
Orion,  by  Orion  Chief,  and  Joe  Orion  2nd 
by  Joe  Orion,  and  retired  from  the  public 
and  private  sale  of  Durocs  by  agreement 
for  two  years.  Getting  back  into  the  active 
work  after  the  elapse  of  the  24  months,  he 
showed  Orien  Cherry  King  and  won  Grand 
Champion  at  Ohio  in  1913,  and  from  that 
date  until  the  present  the  Orion  Cherry 
King  blood  has  been  in  the  ascendency, 
taking  more  Grand  Champion  prizes  than 
the  Durocs  of  any  other  family  of  the 
breed  ever  did.  Orion  Cherry  King's  dam 
was  Orion  Lady  A.  by  Orion  Chief  out  of 
King  Lady,  she  by  Chief  Surprise  by  Chief 
of  Ohio  a  litter  mate  to  Ohio  Chief. 

One  of  the  most  noted  sons  of  Ohio 
Chief,  produced  after  Mr.  Harding  took 
that  noted  hog  West,  was  The  Professor, 
a  boar  purchased  as  a  pig  by  Henry  Ma- 
tern,  of  Illinois.  He  proved  an  unusually 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

great  breeding  hog,  and  sows  bred  to  him 
commanded  the  highest  prices.  He  pro- 
duced such  boars  as  Instructor,  Grand 
Champion  Illinois;  Superba,  The  Princi- 
pal 4th  (at  one  time  head  of  Mumford 
herd),  and  a  long  line  of  good  sows.  When 
the  hog  was  five  years  old  Mr.  Matern  re- 
fused $5,000  for  him,  the  hog  having  made 
his  owner  at  least  five  times  that  amount 
even  at  the  low  prices  prevailing  in  those 
days.  He  produced  equally  well  on  sows  of 
varied  breeding,  thus  establishing  the  fact 
that  he  was  a  real  herd  boar.  Mr.  Matern 
won  regularly  with  his  get  at  Illinois  and 
the  International  for  a  number  of  years. 
Another  descendant  of  Ohio  Chief  that 
came  back  from  Mr.  Harding  to  Illinois 
was  L.  E.'s  Valley  Chief  by  Valley  Chief 
by  Ohio  Chief.  He  was  owned  in  turn  by 
Sexsmith  &  Strong,  Van  Nice,  L.  E. 
Thomas  of  Illinois.  From  him  was  pro- 
duced L.  E.'s  Valley  King,  the  sire  of  Illus- 
trator, a  boar  that  headed  the  VanMeter 
herd  and  won  grand  champion  Illinois  and 
sold  to  Dr.  C.  E.  Still,  of  Missouri,  for 
$2,000,  and  in  the  latter's  closing  out  sale 
to  Moats  &  Son,  of  Iowa.  A  litter  brother, 
Illustrator  2nd,  went  from  Illinois  and 
headed  the  George  Briggs  herd.  L.  E.'s 

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HISTORY     OF    THE    DUROC 

Valley  King  won  as  a  pig,  a  yearling  and 
aged  boar  at  Illinois,  and  was  owned  in 
turn  by  L.  E.  Thomas,  J.  Young  Caldwell 
and  Henry  Matern. 

For  three  or  four  years  prior  to  the  St. 
Louis  World's  Fair,  the  Browning  herd, 
so  prominent  in  early  Duroc  lore,  was  not 
on  the  show  circuit,  as  increasing  age 
forced  the  elder  Browning  to  slack  up  his 
work  with  the  breed  and  for  a  time  Harry 
was  connected  with  the  Seckman  herd. 
He  helped  develop  and  show  Tip  Top 
Notcher  at  the  World's  Fair,  but  soon  after 
that  time  was  again  managing  a  herd  of 
his  own  and  the  names  Browning  and 
Idlewild  Farm  became  familiar  to  every 
Duroc  man  in  America.  Harry  developed 
that  great  family  of  sows  the  Helen 
Blazes,  and  sold  Helen  Blazes  III.  for 
$1,000,  a  record  price,  and  during  the  next 
ten  years  owned  some  of  the  most  noted 
hogs  the  breed  has  ever  known.  He  was 
a  feeder,  showman  and  builder  of  good 
Durocs  and  was  a  leader  in  shows  and 
sales  until  1915  when  he  closed  out  and 
has  applied  himself  to  newspaper  work 
entirely.  He  was  the  first  fieldman  on  the 
breed  paper  in  the  early  days  of  that  pub- 
lication and  did  untold  good  in  spreading 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Duroc  enthusiasm.  He  has  always  be- 
lieved in  Durocs,  in  gilt  edged  pedigree 
and  in  publicity.  When  King  of  Cols, 
came  into  the  limelight,  he  and  L.  E. 
Thomas  purchased  Chief  of  Cols.,  one  of 
the  King's  greatest  sons,  and  developed 
him  into  a  Grand  Champion  and  he  proved 
to  be  one  of  the  best  breeding  boars  of  the 
Colonel  family,  producing  sows  with  high 
backs  and  stretch  with  ability  to  produce 
good  litters.  Browning's  herd  was  strong 
in  Proud  Advance  blood  lines.  One  of  the 
most  noted  sows  he  ever  owned  was  Lucy 
Wonder  21st,  a  daughter  of  Lucy  Wonder 
of  World's  Fair  fame  (1893).  Her  litter, 
by  Proud  Advance,  producing  Proud 
Fancy,  one  of  the  most  noted  dams  of  the 
breed.  Browning  bought  Defender  as  a 
yearling,  fitted  and  showed  him,  won  first 
at  Iowa  and  Illinois  and  Grand  Champion 
International,  1909,  and  Grand  Champion 
International,  1910.  In  company  with  R. 
L.  Comer  he  purchased  Crimson  Wonder 
III.,  a  Nebraska  show  hog,  and  succeeded 
in  intermingling  this  Western  blood  into 
his  herd,  which  up  to  that  time  was  of 
Colonel,  Ohio  Chief  and  Proud  Advance 
breeding.  The  foundation  of  the  Helen 
Blazes  sows,  Helen  Blazes  64S02n  was 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

shipped  to  Iowa  and  mated  to  Ohio  Chief, 
giving  him  a  Protection  bred  litter  that 
added  much  to  the  popularity  of  the  herd. 
Educator  was  one  of  this  litter,  and  after 
being  used  by  Browning  and  sold  West, 
finally  landed  with  the  Fred  Swan  herd. 
Soon  after  selling  Defender  he  purchased 
from  S.  E.  Eakle  the  boar  known  as  Dis- 
turber, he  having  sold  the  dam  to  Eakle  & 
son,  bred  to  Defender.  This  hog  he  fitted 
and  campaigned  and  won  many  honors. 
Disturber  was  undoubtedly  the  smoothest 
and  largest  big  type  Duroc  boar  produced 
up  to  that  time.  He  died  soon  after  the 
close  of  the  fair  circuit.  Disturber's  dam 
was  Lucy  Wonder  112th,  tracing  to  Chief's1 
Col.,  Proud  Advance  and  old  Lucy  Won- 
der. Browning  developed  the  Tattletale 
family  of  sows  and  carried  a  number  of 
them  to  leading  shows.  These  came  from 
the  great  line  of  brood  sows  Browning  had 
produced  in  his  herd  and  many  of  them 
were  sired  by  Volunteer,  a  boar  by  Pre- 
mier Col.,  by  King  of  Cols.,  which  Morton 
had  sold  to  Dr.  Stanberry  of  Tennessee  as 
a  pig.  Stanberry  developed  and  fitted  Vol- 
unteer and  won  grand  championship  at 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  1911.  Browning  bought 
him  for  $1,000,  won  grand  championship 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

at  the  International,  1911,  selling  him  to 
J.  W.  Storm  of  Ohio  later  for  $1,500,  who 
in  turn  sold  the  boar  and  his  entire  herd 
of  sows  to  Thos.  Johnson,  March,  1913. 
Browning  developed  the  public  sale  busi- 
ness in  his  breeding  of  Durocs  to  a  science 
and  held  more  noted  auctions  than  any 
other  Duroc  breeder,  the  most  noted  being 
his  sale  of  show  and  breeding  boars  in  No- 
vember, 1911,  when  he  made  an  average  of 
$303.65,  something  undreamed  of  in  aver- 
ages at  that  date.  Eleven  consecutive  sales 
held  by  him  in  which  he  sold  about  550 
head  made  a  grand  average  of  $125. 

One  of  the  sons  of  Ohio  Chief  that  went 
West  before  Harding  &  Osborn  bought  the 
old  hog  was  Model  Chief.  This  hog  was 
bought  from  Morton  by  Watt  &  Foust  and 
developed  by  them.  As  a  yearling  he  sold 
to  J.  Coy  Roach,  the  man  who  afterwards 
paid  $1,000  for  Helen  Blazes  III,  the  first 
sow  of  the  breed  to  sell  at  that  price. 
Through  the  efforts  of  the  writer,  Wm. 
Reed  of  Rose  Hill,  Iowa,  purchased  this 
boar  of  Roach  and  produced  many  hogs 
that  have  made  history  for  the  breed,  one 
of  which  was  Model  Chief  2nd,  Grand 
Champion  of  Iowa,  1908.  Through  the  ex- 
cellent line  of  sows  produced  by  Model 

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^Lena  J.   54360 

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I     I   42148 

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rGood  E  Nuff 
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Lady  Pal  II      \      2"875 

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I       22437 
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I     32528 

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fur  Pal  27339 
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Daughter 
59062 

HISTORY     OF    THETriTRO'C 

Chief  and  his  sons,  much  Protection  blood 
was  injected  into  the  Crimson  Wonders 
and  Golden  Models.  .Among-  tke  other  proi- 
ducing, boars  used  in  the^Wm.  Reed  herd 
was  ReedVBankec,  a  half  brother.to  Proud 
Advance,  out  of >a  dam  by  Malcolm :Chiefj, 
!by  Jumbo-  Red  by  Protection.  ^Following 
the  work  of  .Model  Chief  2nd,  Wm..  Reed 
purchased  Chief  Select,  from  the  Mahan 
•herd,  foe  by  Cherry  .Chief  and  >  later  added 
Reed's  Top  Coll,  a;  son  of -Top- Col.  -A  soft 
'of  Orion  Cherry -King  was  uSed;by  him  the 
•past  year  arid  a'iialf,  a  boaniiow  owned  by 
•Kerns-r  of  Nebraska  named  Great  Orion. 
-Mr.  Reed's  4ierd 'is  not  a  large  herd,  but  it 
is  doubtless  the  most  uniform  type  herd  in 
.the  United  Slates,  and  as  a  real  builder  of 
good  hogs  —  a  constructive  breeder  —  he 
[stands  with  few:  Equals  and  no  ^supierior. 
^i  One1  of  the  herds -whrch  has  cohi£  intb 
•the  greatest  prominence  nf  the  pdst  fiv^ 
[years  is  the /herd  ofrProf.  H.  W.  Mumford 
.of  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.1  Hennas  been  breeding- 
'Dufocs  klmdst  as  long  as^  bur1  oldest  pio- 
neer breeders,  but  was  content  t'6  breed 
and  build  in  his  quiet  unostentious  way 
runtil  lie^had  the  foundation  deep  enough 
and  brGrad  enough  to  conie  before  the  pu!> 
.lie  with  a  .herd  worthy  of  his  pdsitibn 


HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

his  ambitions.  Owing  to  his  position  in  the 
Illinois  University  keeping  him  at  a  dis- 
tance from  his  herd,  the  building  has  neces- 
sarily been  slower  than  if  he  had  devoted 
his  entire  time  to  the  work.  Away  back  in 
the  time  of  the  early  records  he  used  a  boar 
by  Red  Jacket  from  the  Talmadge  herd 
and  the  first  recorded  sow  he  owned  was 
Plissy  J.,  from  the  Stonebraker  herd  of 
Illinois.  Ed's  Eclipse,  a  boar  from  the 
Walter's  herd  in  Ohio  and  a  Col.  M.  boar 
and  Liberty  from  the  Morton  herd  were 
later  used.  Then  two  boars  by  Kant  Be 
Beat  from  the  Watt  and  Foust  herd,  one 
of  them  out  of  a  Variety  bred  sow  and  one 
out  of  Rubertha,  a  winner  in  many  fairs. 
This  latter  boar  was  called  Fearnaught. 
Later  a  boar  by  Golden  Rule  was  added, 
and  Ohio  Chief  Again,  the  latter  by  Good 
Enuff  by  Golden  Rule;  King  of  Illinois 
from  the  McFarland  herd  was  used  a  year 
or  two.  Then  another  Protection  bred 
boar,  Cherry  King,  Jr.,  by  Cherry  King, 
from  the  Jackson  herd.  This  blood  he 
intensified  by  later  buying  Brookwater 
Cherry  King  by  the  same  sire.  A  few  years 
ago  he  added  more  Protection  blood  from 
another  source  by  purchasing  The  Prin- 
cipal 4th  by  The  Professor  by  Ohio  Chief, 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

this  boar's  dam  being  Col.  Stoner,  he  by 
King  of  Cols.,  and  his  second  dam  tracing 
to  old  Sensation  7393.  Panama  Special,  an 
intensely  bred  Colonel  boar,  is  now  being 
used  along  with  his  Protection  bred  boars 
and  sows.  There  is  probably  more  Protec- 
tion blood  in  Mr.  Mumford's  herd  than  can 
be  found  in  any  herd  in  the  land.  Prof. 
Mumford  is  one  of  our  greatest  Duroc 
judges  and  his  work  in  the  1916  National 
Swine  Show  did  more  to  unify  Duroc  breed- 
ers on  proper  type  than  any  event  of  the 
recent  past. 

Duroc  history  in  the  East  would  be  in- 
complete without  a  notice  of  the  Johnson 
&  Son  herd  of  Indiana.  Among  their  first 
noted  boars  was  John's  Ohio  Chief.  This 
boar  was  out  of  Nellie  Morton,  she  sired 
by  Morton's  King.  John's  Ohio  Chiefs 
daughters  were  probably  the  best  produc- 
ing sows  the  East  has  ever  known.  They 
were  not  a  large  type,  but  were  smooth, 
deep  bodied,  mellow  and  easy  feeding. 
Mated  with  Colonel  boars,  they  have  made 
much  history  in  shows  and  sales.  Later 
Johnson  &  Son  purchased  Chief's  Top 
Lady  from  Ira  Jackson.  This  sow  had  been 
shipped  to  Mortons  and  mated  to  King  of 
Cols.,  at  the  same  time  Lena  J.,  dam  of 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Defender,  was  mated  to  this  noted  boar. 
From  this  litter  came  Top  Col.  He  was 
used  until  the  herd  was  dispersed,  when 
he  sold  to  Truax  &  Son  of  Ohio  at  $1,000. 
The  Messrs.  Johnson  also  produced  Cherry 
Chief  and  sold  him  as  an  under  year  boar 
to  Morton  &  Co.,  and  the  old  hog"  later  was 
purchased  by  J.  C.  Droz,  Hanks  &  Bishop. 

Ernest  Pancake  of  Illinois  assembled  a 
herd  soon  after  the  World's  Fair  in  St. 
Louis  and  had  at  the  head  Ransom  Chief, 
by  Ohio  Chief,  one  of  the  litter  mentioned 
as  produced  by  Browning,  from  old  Helen 
Blazes  and  Ohio  Chief.  He  also  bought 
Prince  Wonder,  a  boar  by  Decatur  Boy  of 
Jackson.  This  was  one  of  the  most  perfect 
individual  boars  the  breed  has  ever  pro- 
duced. He  died  whik  being  fitted  for  Illi- 
nois. Prince  Wonder  sows  were  all  good 
producers.  One  of  his  sons,  Prince  Won- 
der Again,  was  grand  champion  at  Minne- 
sota, 1911.  Pancake  later  purchased  De- 
fender and  in  1911  sold  him  and  his  entire 
herd  to  East  Bros,  of  Ohio. 

One  of  the  families  that  has  come  into 
prominence  in  the  last  three  years,  and 
which  seems  destined  to  be  in  the  lead  for 
some  time,  is  the  Sensation  family.  At  the 
present  writing  more  boars  of  this  family 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

are  before  the  public  in  the  West  than  the 
boars  of  all  other  lines  combined.  A  large 
majority  of  these  boars  have  been  bred  and 
developed  by  Wm.  Moderow  of  Nebraska, 
a  hog  man  of  the  first  rank.  The  name 
Sensation  is  not  new  for  we  find  back  in  the 
early  years  of  the  breed  the  old  boar  Sen- 
sation 7393,  sired  by  Orion  R.  by  old  Orion, 
Orion  R.  being  farrowed  in  the  Robert's 
herd  and  sold  to  Moorman  of  Indiana,  one 
of  Indianas  pioneer  breeders.  Sensation 
was  out  of  Hoosier  Girl,  a  daughter  of 
Winchester  Chief,  and  the  latter  Is  out  of 
old  Duchess  40th,  the  dam  of  Ohio  Chief 
and  Top  Notcher.  Sam  Stewart  of  Ne- 
braska secured  a  son  of  Sensation  from 
D.  W.  Brown  of  Indiana  who  had  pur- 
chased old  Sensation  from  Moorman  and 
used  him  in  his  herd  a  number  of  years. 
This  young  boar,  called  Chief  Sensation, 
was  out  of  a  sow  that  came  from  the  Trone 
herd  in  Illinois  and  whose  lines  trace  to 
Trones  Hero,  a  winner  at  Chicago,  1893. 
One  of  the  noted  sows  produced  in  the 
Stewart  herd  from  this  boar  was  Sensa- 
tion Girl,  her  dam  a  great  granddaughter 
of  old  Top  Notcher  and  Gold  Dust  Jim, 
the  latter  a  Roberts  and  Russell  bred  boar 
that  produced  much  improvement  in  Ne- 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

braska  and  Iowa  Durocs  in  his  time.  Sen- 
sation Wonder  and  Sensation  Wonder  II 
came  from  a  mating  of  Sensation  Girl,  with 
Wallace's  Wonder,  one  of  the  many  noted 
Crimson  Wonder  boars  that  came  out  of 
the  cross  of  H.  A.'s  Queen  with  Crimson 
Wonder  Again.  Sensation  Rose,  the  dam 
of  Great  Sensation  (Kern),  King  Sensa- 
tion (Labert),  and  Top  Sensation  (Mode- 
row  &  Toelle)  is  by  Sensation  Wonder, 
out  of  Red  Rose,  carrying  a  combination  of 
Protection,  Orion  and  Kruger  breeding. 
The  name  Sensation  has  been  used  with 
all  the  prominent  boars  of  that  line,  al- 
though they  are  as  much  Crimson  Wonder 
as  they  are  Sensation  bred.  Wallace's 
Wonder  was  produced  by  Wm.  Sells  from 
the  Henry  Allen  boar,  Crimson  Wonder 
Again.  Clarence  Wallace  produced  Sensa- 
tion Wonder  from  Wallace's  Wonder  and 
Sensation  Girl.  Sensation  Rose  was  mated 
by  Moderow  to  Great  Wonder  I  Am  and 
produced  the  three  Sensation  boars  men- 
tioned in  the  first  of  this  paragraph  as  well 
as  many  others  of  less  note  and  some  ex- 
cellent sow  stuff.  Great  Wonder  I  Am 
carries  eight  crosses  of  Protection  breed- 
ing, seven  of  Crimson  Wonder,  two  of 
Golden  Model  blood  as  well  as  a  touch  of 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Orion  and  Critic  lines.  Great  Wonder  I 
Am's  top  lines  trace  back  as  follows:  Great 
Wonder  I  Am,  Great  Wonder,  B.  &  G.'s 
Wonder,  P.  V.'s  Wonder,  Lincoln  Won- 
der, Ohio  Chief  and  Protection,  the  name 
"Wonder"  in  this  line  coming  from  the 
dam  of  Lincoln  Wonder,  Morrison's  Peach, 
a  daughter  of  old  Crimson  Wonder,  a 
noted  sow  of  her  day.  The  family  of  Sen- 
sations came  prominently  before  the  gen- 
eral public  at  the  1915  Nebraska  Fair, 
when  under  year  boars  by  Sensation  Won- 
der 2nd  won  1st,  2nd,  4th  and  Junior 
Championship  at  the  show.  Since  that 
time  the  ascendancy  of  this  line  has  been 
rapid  and  some  of  the  largest  boars  and 
some  of  the  best  sows  of  the  breed  carry 
this  line. 

The  line  of  breeding  known  since  1912 
as  the  Defenders  is  really  an  intensifying 
of  the  Orion  and  Colonel  blood.  This  De- 
fender blood  has  been  linebred  and  inbred 
by  the  McKee  Bros.,  who  purchased  old 
Defender  in  1913  and  have  continued  to 
improve  and  perpetuate  this  line.  They 
have  proven  themselves  real  swine  build- 
ers, and  have  produced  a  type  peculiar  to 
that  blood  line  and  a  type  that  conforms 
in  every  particular  to  the  large,  stretchy, 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

high-backed  hog  which  all  breeders  are 
striving  to  produce.  They  had  in  their  herd 
as  foundation  material,  sows  of  Ohio  Chief, 
Golden  Rule,  Proud  Advance,  Orion  Chief 
and  Colonel  lines,  and  produced  many 
noted  boars  by  these  matings,  but  are  now 
mating  Defender  boars  to  their  Defender 
bred  sows  and  have  continually  increased 
the  size  of  their  breeding  animals,  retained 
their  prolificacy  and  produced  one  of  the 
most  prepotent  lines  of  breeding  which 
.the  breed  has  ever  known.  The  Defenders 
are  more  intensely  bred  than  any  other 
family  of  the  breed.  Possibly  the  best 
boars  and  sows  produced  in  this  herd  have 
been  from  the  cross  of  Defender  blood, 
with  granddaughters  of  Cherry  King,  al- 
though the  writer  has  contended  that  one 
of  the  best  breeding  sons  of  old  Defender 
was  Pilot  Defender,  his  dam  by  Kelly's 
Pilot  Wonder,  a  grand  champion  of  Ohio 
several  years  ago. 

Another  of  the  boar  progeny  of  the 
Crimson  Wonders  that  came  into  promi- 
nence is  old  Model  Wonder  53981  by  Crim- 
son Wodner  I  Am,  out  of  a  dam  tracing 
to  Pericles  of  the  Roberts'  herd.  Pericles 
by  old  Orion.  Hanks  &  Bishop  bought  this 
Wonder  boar  from  U.  G.  Davidson  and  used 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

him  in  their  herd  following  Top  Notcher 
Again  by  old  Top  Notcher  and  other  boars. 
From  Browning  they  purchased  Proud 
Col.,  a  boar  sired  by  Chief's  Col.,  and  out 
of  old  Proud  Fancy  by  Proud  Advance, 
and  produced  a  wonderful  lot  of  big, 
smooth  brood  sows.  Later  they  purchased 
the  old  sire,  Cherry  Chief  by  High  Chief,  by 
Ohio  Chief,  and  a  few  years  ago  followed 
with  Pathfinder,  one  of  the  largest  boars  of 
the  breed,  a  boar  carrying  the  blood  of  Pro- 
tection and  the  Colonels,  his  sire  being  Pro- 
phetstown  Chief  by  Cherry  Chief  by  High 
Chief  by  Ohio  Chief  by  Protection.  His 
dam  is  by  S.  E/s  Premier  Col.,  by  Premier 
Col.  by  King  of  Cols.,  his  second  dam  by 
Orion  Chief. 

We  have,  several  times  in  the  history, 
referred  to  Cherry  Chief  21335  and  his 
progeny  play  an  important  figure  in  mod- 
ern Duroc  history.  He  was  sired  by  High 
Chief,  he  by  Ohio  Chief  and  was  out  of 
Cherry  Queen,  she  by  Baker's  Bred  Right, 
the  latter  boar  carrying  the  same  blood 
lines  as  old  Orion.  Johnson  &  Son  of  In- 
diana bought  Cherry  Queen  and  after- 
wards had  her  bred  to  High  Chief.  In  No- 
ember,  1907,  Morton  &  Co.,  a  firm  com- 
posed of  S.  E.  Morton  &  Stewart  Bros., 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

bought  him  and  had  him  on  their  farm 
until  he  was  six  or  seven  years  of  age, 
when  they  sold  him  to  J.  C.  Droz  of  Iowa, 
who  in  turn  sold  him  to  Hanks  &  Bishop. 
Among  noted  hogs  sired  by  him  were 
Chery  King,  one  of  the  foundations  of  the 
Orion  Cherry  Kings;  Cherry  Chief  II, 
owned  a  number  of  years  by  Trios.  Johnson 
of  Ohio;  The  Chief  Col.,  at  head  of  Mahan 
herd  and  later  sold  to  Bartley  and  to  Ger- 
laugh;  Chief  Select,  a  boar  sold  by  Mahan 
into  Iowa,  and  used  in  the  Reed  herd  and 
other  prominent  herds  in  that  state. 

One  of  the  Duroc  blood  lines  that  was 
on  the  top  round  of  popularity  for  a  time, 
and  a  strain  that  showed  as  much  easy 
feeding  qualities  as  any  the  breed  ever  de- 
veloped, was  the  Golden  Rules,  perfected 
and  produced  in  the  Watt  &  Foust  herd 
and  carried  by  them  to  many  high  honors 
in  the  Ohio  State  and  other  shows.  Golden 
Rule  was  sired  by  Choice  Goods,  a  Protec- 
tion bred  boar  in  the  Jackson  herd,  the  dam 
being  Mayflower,  a  sow  tracing  to  Col.  M., 
the  foundation  of  the  Colonel  family. 
Golden  Rule  produced  Choice  Rule  and 
Good  Enuff,  both  Grand  Champions  at 
Ohio,  and  Good  Enuff  produced  Good 
Enuff  Again,  also  Champion  at  the  same 


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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

state  fair  in  1910.  The  latter  was  sold  to 
W.  H.  Robbins  of  Ohio  for  $1,000  and  this 
boar  weighed  925  pounds  at  17  months  of 
age.  Good  Enuff  Again  produced  Burke's 
Good  Enuff,  a  winner  as  a  pig  at  Inter- 
national and  was  sold  to  C.  F.  Burke  of 
Colorado.  He  won  grand  championship  at 
Colorado  and  afterwards  was  sold  to 
Economy  Stock  Farm,  Iowa,  and  won  for 
them  grand  champion  at  Illinois,  1915,  and 
was  used  extensively  in  that  herd.  Good 
Enuff  was  also  sire  of  Pride  Enuff,  used  in 
the  McKee  herd  a  short  time.  The  blood 
line  of  these  boars,  produced  by  Golden 
Rule,  was  founded  on  the  noted  Cedarvale 
sows  in  the  Watt  &  Foust  herd. 

In  the  McFarland  herd  of  Missouri  the 
name  Wonder  has  been  extensively  used. 
This  does  not  come  from  the  Crimson 
Wonder  name,  but  from  the  fact  that  they 
purchased  some  years  ago  descendants  of 
old  Lucy  Wonder,  Grand  Champion  at 
Chicago,  1893.  They  purchased  at  one 
time  six  gilts  of  this  breeding  from  O. 
Walter  &  Bro.,  that  were  sired  by  Long- 
fellow, Jr.,  by  Old  Longfellow  6815,  and 
were  out  of  a  grand  daughter  of  Lucy 
Wonder.  They  also  used  Oom  Paul  from 
the  Trone  herd,  a  grandson  of  Jumbo  Red. 

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HISTORY     OF     THE     DUROC 

Also  Gold  Finch,  a  boar  with  same  blood 
lines  as  old  Orion.  They  won  grand  cham- 
pionship at  St.  Louis  with  Dotie,  a  sow 
they  had  purchased  of  C.  R.  Doty  and  the 
following  year  had  her  mated  to  Tip  Top 
Notcher  and  since  that  time  boars  of  this 
latter  breeding  have  been  used  in  their 
herd. 


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SOME  CHAMPIONS  OF  THE  PAST 

B.  &  C's  Col.  80587n  (Col.  Carl  19265a) 
was  full  brother  to  King  of  Cols.  He  was 
grand  champion  of  Iowa  and  Illinois,  1909, 
shown  by  Baxter  &  Comer. 

Rosemary  Duchess,  by  King  of  Cols., 
champion  sow  of  Ohio,  1908.  Sired  by 
King  of  Cols.,  and  was  owned  and  shown 
by  Whitehall  Farm,  Ohio. 

Col.  S.,  by  King  of  Cols.,  was  grand 
champion,  Kentucky,  1908,  shown  by 
Whitehall  Farm. 

Much  Col.,  by  Chief  of  Cols.,  he  by  King 
of  Cols.,  champion,  Indiana,  1909,  shown 
by  D.  W.  Brown. 

Miss  Orion,  by  Orion  Chief,  champion, 
Indiana,  1909,  shown  by  Mahan. 

Medoc,  Jr.,  grand  champion,  Nebraska, 
1909,  and  grandson  of  Kantbebeat,  out  of 
a  Reed's  dam,  shown  by  Van  Patten. 

Golden  Queen,  grand  champion  sow, 
Nebraska  and  Sioux  City,  1909;  shown  by 
Waltemeyer. 

King  of  Col's.  Ideal,  by  King  of  Cols., 
grand  champion,  Ohio,  1909;  shown  by 
Cline. 

Duchess  Czarina  4th,  grand  champion, 
Ohio,  1909,  sired  by  Top  Chief,  by  Win- 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Chester  Chief  and  out  of  a  dam  by  Choice 
Goods,  by  Chief  of  Ohio,  litter  brother  to 
Ohio  Chief,  second  dam  by  old  Top 
Notcher,  shown  by  Mahan. 

Crimson  Jewell,  grand  champion  sow, 
Iowa,  1909,  sired  by  Ohio  Chief,  out  of  a 
Proud  Advance  dam;  shown  by  Hanks  & 
Bishop. 

Freed's    Col.,    grand    champion,    Iowa, 

1910,  sired  by  Prince  of  Cols.,  shown  by 
Freed  and  afterwards  owned  by  Freed  & 
Harding. 

Golden  Queen  3d,  grand  champion  sow, 
Iowa,  1910,  sired  by  Golden  Model  2nd, 
out  of  a  dam  by  Model  Chief,  by  Ohio 
Chief;  shown  by  Waltemeyer. 

Belle's  Crimson  Wonder,  grand  cham- 
pion boar,  Nebraska,  1910,  sired  by  Crim- 
son Wonder  Again,  out  of  a  dam  by  Savan- 
nah Belle's  Chief,  by  Ohio  Chief;  shown 
by  Barnes. 

Jack's  Friend,  by  Joe  Orion,  by  Orion 
Chief,  grand  champion,  Ohio,  1911.  Dam 
by  King's  Pal,  by  King  to  Be;  shown  by 
Jackson. 

Pal's  Prince,  grand  champion,  Indiana, 

1911,  sired  by  King  Pal's  Last,  by  King's 
Pal,  dam  by  Prince  of  Cols.;  shown  by 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Harvey  and  sold  to  Sprague  of  Ohio  for 
$1,010. 

Colonade,  full  brother  to  Pal's  Prince, 
grand  champion,  Indiana  and  Interna- 
tional, 1912.  Shown  at  Indiana  by  Harvey 
and  sold  to  Goodwin,  Illinois,  for  $900  and 
shown  by  Goodwin  at  International. 

Mc's  Dream,  grand  champion  sow,  In- 
ternational, 1911,  and  Wisconsin,  1912, 
Illinois,  1913,  sired  by  Fancy  Orion  Chief 
by  Orion  Chief;  shown  by  Browning. 

Mo.  Model  Top,  a  grand  champion  Mis- 
souri, 1911,  sired  by  Model  Top,  by  Golden 
Model ;  shown  by  Sheley  &  Clatterbuck. 

High  Model  by  Golden  Model  2nd,  out 
of  an  Ohio  Chief  Dam,  grand  champion, 
Iowa  and  South  Dakota,  1912;  shown  by 
Waltemeyer  and  afterwards  sold  to 
Shanks,  Minnesota. 

Chiefs  Maid  by  Valley  Chief,  by  Ohio 
Chief,  out  of  a  Top  Notcher  Again  dam; 
grand  champion  sow  at  Iowa,  1912;  shown 
by  Davis. 

Col's  Pilot  Wonder,  by  Kelly  Pilot 
Wonder,  by  Brock's  Wonder,  by  Pilot 
Wonder,  grand  champion,  Ohio,  1912; 
shown  by  McLaughlin  and  sold  to  Smith 
&  Rogers  for  $1,250. 

Critic  B.,  by  Dusty  Critic,  by  Glendale 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Critic,  grand  champion,  Nebraska  and 
Kansas,  1912;  shown  by  Danford  and  later 
owned  by  Widle. 

Sunbeam  Girl,  by  B.  &  N.  Chief,  dam  by 
Neb.  Critic,  grand  champion  sow,  Ne- 
braska, 1912;  shown  by  Hansen. 

Valley  King,  by  Valley  Chief,  by  Ohio 
Chief  dam,  by  Top  Notcher  Again,  grand 
champion,  Iowa  and  Nebraska,  1911; 
shown  by  Harding. 

Orion  Cherry  King,  grand  champion, 
1913,  shown  by  Jackson. 

Fancy  Flo,  by  Fancy  Col.,  grand  cham- 
pion, Ohio  and  Kentucky,  1913;  shown  by 
Mahan. 

The  Chiefs  Model,  by  Cherry  Chief, 
grand  champion,  Indiana  and  Kentucky, 
1913;  shown  by  Mahan. 

Big  Wonder,  by  I  Am  Crimson  Won- 
der, out  of  a  Kruger  bred  dam,  grand 
champion,  Iowa,  1913;  shown  by  Stevens 
and  sold  to  Economy  Farm. 

Golden  Model  34th,  by  Golden  Model 
2nd,  grand  champion,  Nebraska,  1913. 

Fancy  Advance  2nd,  by  Wallace's  Won- 
der, by  Crimson  Wonder  Again,  grand 
champion  sow,  Nebraska,  1913,  shown  by 
Wallace. 

Illustrator,    by    L.    E.'s    Valley    King, 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

grand  champion,  Illinois,  1913;  shown  by 
VanMeter. 

Lady  Climax  by  II  Climax  out  of  Dotie, 
the  St.  Louis  grand  champion  sow,  grand 
champion,  Missouri,  1913;  shown  by  Mc- 
Farlands. 

Nebraska  Belle,  grand  champion,  Ne- 
braska, 1904,  sold  to  Harding  for  $600,  a 
record  sow  price  at  that  time. 

Joe  Orion  2nd,  grand  champion,  Inter- 
national, 1913,  by  Joe  Orion,  by  Orion 
Chief;  sold  by  Sprague  to  Enoch's  Farm 
at  eight  years  of  age  at  $5,000. 

Grand  Model,  grand  champion,  Iowa, 
1914;  shown  by  Waltemeyer  and  retained 
in  their  herd  as  herd  header  until  his  death. 

Golden  Queen  35th,  grand  champion 
sow,  Iowa,  1914;  shown  by  Waltemeyer. 

Echo's  Crimson  Wonder,  grand  cham- 
pion, Nebraska,  1914;  sired  by  Van's  Crim- 
son Wonder,  by  Crimson  Again  dam,  by 
Echo's  Top  King. 

Imperator,  grand  champion,  Kentucky, 
1914,  sired  by  Fancy  Col.,  by  King  of  Cols. 
II,  by  King  of  Cols;  dam  by  Col.  J.,  by 
Tippy  Col.,  by  Prince  of  Cols. ;  shown  by 
Williams,  sold  to  Mayfield  Farms. 

Royal  King  by  Orion  Cherry  King, 
grand  champion,  Ohio,  1914;  shown  by 

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HISTORY     OF    THE     DUROC 

Jackson  and  sold  to  Johnson  Bros.,  Minne- 
sota, for  $2,650.00.  " 

Critic  D.,  by  Critic  B.,  grand  champion, 
Nebraska,  1915;  shown  by  Widle. 

Grand  Lady,  by  Grand  Model,  grand 
champion,  Nebraska,  1915;  shown  by 
Waltemeyer. 

Golden  Queen  16th,  by  I  Am  Golden 
Model  2nd,  grand  champion,  Iowa,  1915; 
shown  by  Waltemeyer. 

Model  Select  2nd,  by  Model  Select,  by 
Chief  Select,  by  Cherry  Chief,  grand  cham- 
pion, Iowa,  1915;  shown  by  Spencer. 

Gold  Certificate,  by  Gold  Bond,  by  Good 
Enuff  Again,  grand  champion  boar,  Ohio, 
1915;  shown  by  Robbins. 

Pal's  Lady,  by  Pal's  Col.,  grand  cham- 
pion, Ohio,  1915;  shown  by  Gerlaugh. 

Taxpayer  Thirteen,  by  Taxpayer,  by 
Morton's  Top  Col.,  grand  champion  at 
San  Francisco,  1915. 

Crimson  Elizabeth,  grand  champion 
sow,  San  Francisco  Exposition,  sired  by  I 
Am  Perfection  Wonder,  by  Crimson  Won- 
der Again ;  shown  by  Hoover. 

Taxpayer  Model,  grand  champion,  At- 
lanta and  other  southern  shows,  1917,  sired 
by  Taxpayer  by  Morton's  Top  Col.,  bred 
by  Watt  &  Foust,  winner  as  pig  at  Ohio; 

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sold  to  Mahan  Bros,  at  public  auction  at 
$550,  record  price  for  a  six  months'  pig; 
sold  in  Mahan  closing  sale  to  Coldstream 
Farms. 

Orion  Cherry  King,  Jr.,  grand  cham- 
pion, Ohio  and  National  Swine  Show,  1916, 
sired  by  Orion  Cherry  King,  dam  by  Jack's 
Friend;  shown  by  Jackson  &  Foust,  sold  to 
Peacock  &  Hodge,  Georgia. 

Joe  Orion  King  ("Scissors"),  grand 
champion,  National  Swine  Show,  1917, 
sired  by  Orion  Cherry  King,  out  of  dam 
by  Joe  Orion  II;  shown  by  Jackson,  sold 
to  Pine  Crest  Farms. 


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